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INTRODUCTION. 



1. The Manuscript. 

The document here printed, called A Byll of Gomplaynt 
exhibited by the Fellows and Schollers of 8 l Ihons Golledge 
agaynst certayne iniuryes and outrages committed agaynst them 
by the stagekeepers of Trinity Golledge att ther two last comedyes, 
forms part of the Acta Curim, or Records of the Vice-Chan- 
cellor's Court, a long series of which is preserved in the 
Registry of the University of Cambridge. The case was heard 
on 11 February, 1610-11, and following days, the Minutes of 
each day's proceedings being taken down by the Registrary, 
James Tabor, M.A. of Corpus Christi College, who held that 
office from 1600 to 1645. Mr Tabor was one of the most 
accurate and painstaking officers that the University has ever 
had ; but his period was not distinguished for good hand- 
writing, and his own was one of the worst. Further, it is 
evident that in taking down these Minutes he was writing 
against time, while the witnesses were speaking; and, un- 
fortunately, he did not make a fair copy of his record when the 
case was over. We find instead a curious medley of depositions 
properly attested, notes for future use in court, and lists of 
witnesses who could depose to particulai^points. Moreover, 
there are some remarkable repetitions. The case for S. John's 
College is stated twice, once at full length, and once in a brief 
summary ; and even the sentence appears in two farmer-one of 
which is much fuller than the other. Lastly, as though nothing 



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VI INTRODUCTION. 

should be wanting to increase the difficulty of understanding 
the case correctly, our Registrary did not write out his notes 
continuously, or on sheets of paper of the same size and 
substance, but occasionally used any fragment that came ready 
to his hand, as for instance the back of a piece already written 
on, which in one case was turned round, so that the bottom of 
the sheet became the top. 

From these causes the task of editor has been one of 
extreme difficulty; and I should have been tempted to lay the 
document aside had I not received much valuable help both in 
deciphering the manuscript, and in arranging the different 
pieces in their proper order. I take this opportunity of thank- 
ing my clerk, Mr C. J. Stonebridge, who copied the manuscript 
in the first instance, and has since spared neither time nor 
labour in correcting and re-correcting his transcript ; George 
Chawner, M.A., Fellow of King's College, who in the kindest 
manner placed his unrivalled knowledge of handwriting and of 
University history at my disposal ; and, lastly, Dr G. F. Warner, 
Keeper of the Manuscripts in the British Museum, who was 
so good as to collate our transcript with the original. Even 
now, notwithstanding all the care bestowed upon the work, I am 
sensible of numerous shortcomings, and I present it to students 
with much diffidence as a curious illustration of the manners 
of the University at the beginning of the seventeenth century. 
For such a purpose, minute accuracy in respect of the text is 
not so indispensable as it would be if we were dealing with a 
classic ; but whatever is done at all ought to be done well, and 
I can assure my readers that no labour has been spared to 
interpret the hasty scrawl which Tabor committed to posterity. 
Not more than three or four words at most have beaten us 
completely. 

In preparing the document for the press, I have been 
careful to preserve the exact spelling of proper names, the 
curious diversity of which will not fail to attract notice. For 
instance, Elborough appears as Elborow, Elborrough, Elborrogh, 
Elburrow. Most of these variations are entered in the List of 
Names which follows the Record of the Court, but others will 
be easily recognised by an attentive reader. In the above- 



THE MANUSCRIPT. Vll 

mentioned list I have done my best to identify all the members 
of the University; but, unfortunately, the registers of matricu- 
lations and degrees were carelessly kept at the end of the 
sixteenth century, and the beginning of the seventeenth, so 
that about many persons no information is attainable. 

The title " Sir," which I have always expanded, is the 
translation of the Latin word Dominus, which was applied to a 
Bachelor, just as Master (= Magister) was applied to the next 
higher degree ; and, as William Cole, the antiquary, points out 
in a letter written to the editor of The Gentleman s Magazine, 
4 April, 1781 l , "the Christian name is never used in the 
University with the addition of Sir, but the Surname only... 
Yet, when Bachelors of Arts get into the country, it is quite 
the reverse ; for then, whether curates, chaplains, vicars, or 
rectors, they are constantly stiled Sir or Dominus, prefixed to 
both their names, to distinguish them from Masters of Arts, or 
Magister." 

Before concluding this section of my introduction, I must 
point out that, lengthy as the document is, it is obviously 
imperfect, for it contains only the case for the plaintiff, without 
any formal defence, and it is impossible to suppose that Trinity 
College would not have called witnesses to contradict, or at 
least to attenuate, the serious charges made against their 
stage-keepers, some of whom were Masters of Arts and Fellows 
of the House. As a matter of fact, only one witness (Dr Heme) 
defended the conduct of Trinity College. 

2. The occasion of the riot 

The occasion was the representation of a comedy in the 
Hall of Trinity College ; and the pretext was, in all probability, 
the difficulty of getting into the College and of finding seats 
in the Hall. But I am afraid that a careful study of the docu- 
ment before us reveals the unpleasant fact that at that time a 
bitter feeling existed between the two colleges, and that the 
men of Trinity College had made up their minds to make 

1 Reprinted in Nichols, Literary Anecdotes, i. 661. I have to thank 
Mr G. Chawuer for this reference. 



Vlll INTRODUCTION. 

themselves exceedingly unpleasant to any men of S. John's 
College, and especially to certain named persons, should they 
venture to appear at the comedy. 

The statutes which Queen Elizabeth gave to Trinity Col- 
lege (29 March 1559-60) directed that comedies or tragedies 
should be performed in the Hall either privately or publicly, 
during the twelve days of Christmas or soon afterwards, accord- 
ing to the pleasure of the Master and eight Senior Fellows. 
The whole subject of these collegiate representations, which 
were by no means confined to a single college — the names and 
subjects of the plays, which were usually written for the occa- 
sion — the names of the actors — and the technique of the 
performance, viz. how the actors were dressed — how the stage 
was arranged — how it was lighted — and how the obvious 
interference with the purposes for which college halls were 
built was got over — would require a volume instead of a paper ; 
and in this place I shall not allude to any of these things, 
except incidentally, as they are referred to in the depositions 
of witnesses. I am sorry to say that I cannot even discover 
what plays were being performed in Trinity College on this 
occasion. Their names are not given in our document, and 
the Bursars' Accounts of Trinity College are equally silent 1 . 

It must be remembered that in the early years of the 
seventeenth century life in the University may have been 
studious — let us hope it was — but it must, unquestionably, 
have been dull. The games in fashion — tennis, bowls, and 
archery — appealed to the few rather than to the many ; and 
undergraduates sighed in vain for some means of gratifying 
their animal spirits. Under these circumstances we can con- 
ceive that the annual performance of plays afforded a gratifica- 
tion of which we, in these days of incessant amusement, can 
form no idea. We do not know how tickets were obtained ; 

1 A few notices of the performance of plays in College Halls are given in 
Willis and Clark: Arch. Hist, of the University, Vol. in., pp. 171, 172; and an 
elaborate article on the subject will be found in The Retrospective Revieio, 
Vol. xn. (1825), pp. 1-42. For a reference to this article I have to thank 
F. S. Boas, Esq., who, as Clark Lecturer in Trinity College (1904-5), selected 
some of these collegiate plays for the subject of his lectures. 



THE OCCASION OF THE RIOT. IX 

but doubtless they were eagerly sought after, and a failure to 
procure one would cause bitter disappointment. There are 
indications that the excluded not unfrequently resorted to 
personal violence on those who had been more fortunate than 
themselves; and sometimes, as at King's College in 1606-7, 
broke the windows of the Hall, " with loud outcries and shout- 
ings for the space of two hours together " ; so as to be certain 
of destroying a pleasure which they could not share 1 . 

In the next place, who were the " Stagekeepers " ? The 
name implies that they had something to do with the stage, 
and I thought at first that they probably were responsible for 
lighting it, as they are nearly always mentioned in connection 
with links — just as the yeomen of Queen Elizabeth's guard 
lighted the stage in King's College Chapel when a play was 
acted there before her in 1 564. This, however, was clearly not 
the case, as we find them in the court, in the street, in short 
everywhere except in the hall. They were evidently what we 
should call stewards of the performance. Smartly dressed, so 
as to be easily recognised ; sometimes armed, in case of resist- 
ance to their authority; they carried links to pilot the audience 
along the street and across the court, neither of which were 
artificially lighted in those days — and it must be remembered 
that the audience began to assemble at about five o'clock on a 
winter's evening. It was evidently part of their duty to come 
outside the gate of the College, and to do their best, like police- 
men, to keep order in the crowd — which, like a modern crowd, 
consisted mainly of idlers, who were gazing at those who had a 
right to enter, and doing their utmost to prevent them from 
reaching the gate. 



3. The scene of the riot. 

The riot took place in front of the Great Gate of Trinity 
College, and in the street between that gate and S. John's 
College ; but, as a good many changes have been effected since 
those days, it is essential, for the right comprehension of what 

1 Cooper's Annals, Vol. in., p. 24. 



X INTRODUCTION. 

happened, to try to realise the appearance which the locality 
presented in February, 1610-11. For this purpose I have 
reproduced (fig. 1) a portion of Hamond's plan of Cambridge, 
drawn in 1592 — that is to say, about 18 years before the 
curtain rises on our drama. 




Fig. 1. 

The Great Gate of Trinity College was approached by a 
paved passage, about 90 feet long by 30 feet wide, bounded by 
high parallel walls crowned with battlements and strengthened 
by buttresses at intervals. This passage, or " walk " as it is 
termed in our document, was prolonged eastwards so far as to 
leave the street between its eastern extremity and the gate of 
S. John's College very little wider than the other part of 



THE SCENE OF THE RIOT. XI 

Trinity Street (called High Strete on Hamond's plan) which 
led to Great S. Mary's Church. The ground between the 
north wall of this passage and the Chapel of Trinity College 
was laid out as a garden, attached to the rooms (occupied by a 
Fellow) on the first floor of the range between the Chapel and 
the Great Gate. A staircase led down to it from these rooms. 
Loggan's print, dated about 1690, shews this staircase, which 
was not destroyed until 1856, when the range was faced with 
stone under the direction of A. Salvin, architect. The ancient 
wall had been replaced by the existing iron railing in the 
previous year. When this was done the approach to the 
Great Gate was widened by about 5 ft., and a large strip of 
ground was added to Trinity Street at the same time ; but, 
when Hamond's plan was drawn, the eastern wall of the garden, 
after passing the north-east corner of the Chapel, turned 
slightly to the west, and was carried up to the Great Gate of 
S. John's College, being interrupted only by an archway 
through which carts could pass to the kitchen and the walks. 
In front of the wall near the gate, and also in front of the 
college north of the gate, was a row of strong posts and rails, 
with a lofty post at the end of the row nearest to the gate — as 
was the custom at that time, before pavements for the comfort 
and safety of foot-passengers had been so much as thought 
of. These lofty posts, which bore the College Arms, painted 
and gilt, are well shewn in Loggan's view of the front of 
S. John's College. At Trinity College there were no posts, but 
Loggan shews a line of rails at a short distance from each of 
the walls which bounded the " walk." Hamond does not shew 
these, but as "Trin. Coll. rayles" are mentioned in our narrative 
(p. 34), they evidently existed at the time of the riot. 

Opposite to the Great Gate of Trinity College stood the 
Sun Inn, one of the most important hostelries in Cambridge ; 
and on the north side of the Inn was the churchyard and 
church of All Saints. Hamond's plan shews the churchyard 
of its full size, before a strip had been cut off from its west 
side to provide space for a foot-pavement. This pavement 
passed under the tower of the church, which, in the year 1820, 
was pierced with an arch to admit it. 

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Xll INTRODUCTION. 

4*. The riot, from beginning to end. 

Under this heading I propose to construct a detailed 
account of the events of the evening ; and I will make it as 
lively as I can by the help of extracts from the depositions, 
some of which are extremely amusing. It is, however, impossible 
to record every touch which helps to make the picture complete 
and vivid, and I hope that those who take an interest in the 
subject will study the record for themselves. 

The riot began, as such riots usually do, with the crowding 
of a large number of persons into a small space. The visitors 
approached the Great Gate of Trinity College in two streams, 
that which came up Trinity Street being the largest : " in 
a manner all that came to the Comedy both Masters of 
Arts and gentlemen strangers wer to passe thatt waye 1 ." On 
the other side, from S. John's College, though it is remarked 
"that the presse was soe greate," the number was far less. 
The stagekeepers at first did their best to maintain order, and 
apparently succeeded in keeping a path clear through the 
crowd up to the gate. On the Trinity Street side, say the 
Johnians, " they only wafted their clubs easily before them, 
and fairly entreated them (the bystanders) " ; but on the other 
side " was noe such behaviour, but rude and barbarous usage of 
ther lynks and clubs." This partiality was so obvious that 
men of other colleges, as it was asserted, removed themselves 
from the side next to S. John's for fear " they should be 
abused," and crossed to the other side, " where they stood 
peaceably." 

Further, it was affirmed by the Johnians that " the gates 
were shut at five of the clock, and divers Masters of Arts, 
Bachelors in Divinity, etc., of S. John's College were put from 
gate to gate and hardly suffered to enter; and, being in, were 
offered to be put out by stagekeepers and searched for 
weapons." 

This being the state of affairs, a Bachelor of Arts of S. 
John's College, John Elborough, left his College about five p.m., 
on the first night of the play, after supper in Hall, and got as 

1 Complaint of S. John's College, p. 3. 



THE RIOT, FROM BEGINNING TO END. xili 

far as the corner of Trinity College wall and rails next to S. 
John's College. There he was standing "with the rest of the 
company " of men of S. John's College, when " a stagekeeper 
apparelled in a light colour suyte of Saye, with a small lace of 
the same colour, coming towards him, dasht him with his lynke 
once or twise, which he endured " (p. 3). It transpired after- 
wards that this stagekeeper was Thomas Heath of Trinity, 
B.A. 1610. 

Elborough further stated that "soone after by another 
stagekeeper he was cutt in the hand with a sworde," or as 
he said in his evidence, " he was wounded on his arme and 
hand by one of the stagekeepers with a naked sword. That 
stagekeeper that smote him wore a red coat with white lace, 
much after the forme of a horseman's coate, with a scarfe before 
his face 1 ." An eye-witness, Nicholas Auger of S. John's College, 
described what took place as follows : 

"a stagekeeper, who was in a carsey sute, did smyte with a lyte lynke 
[i.e. a lighted link] over Sir Elsborrogh his heade, and then Sir Elborrogh 
houlding up his arm to hould of the torch dropping, that stagekeeper 
did hitt him a good blowe with his clubb upon his arme, and then Sir Oxley 
[i.e. Robert Oxley, Bachelor of Arts of S. John's College], stept forward 
and helped to rescue Sir Elborrogh, then other stagekeepers came to 
rescue that stagekeeper, and 2 " — 

a general engagement began, the witness might have 
added, and perhaps did, for a piece has been torn out of the 
manuscript at this point. Oxley, who had lent dresses to two 
or three stagekeepers, and therefore expected kind treatment 
from them, swore 

"that he was at the first easily putt by, as he thinketh, by Mr Diliker 
[of Trinity College, M.A. 1609], whereupon Mr Diliker went away. 
Presently ther came another stagekeeper, and linkt him sore, striking 
him with the flame of his linke upon his hand; and stroke at his face, 
which lighted on his breast. This stagekeeper was in a white suyte 
almost covered with redd lace. Upon this ther came three or four 
more stagekeepers upon him, wherof one gave him a blow over the 
face with a clubb, which made his face black and blue divers dayes after. 

1 Evidence of John Elborough, No. 55, p. 32. 

2 Evidence of Nicholas Auger, No. 11, p. 18. 

62 



xiv INTRODUCTION. 

Then the said Sir Oxley confeseth that he caught a torch from one of the 
stagekeepers, striking with it, and broke the same into two peices, and 
threw it among the stagekeepers 1 " 

and ran for dear life towards his own College. As he went he 
met with unexpected succour, for an undergraduate of his 
College, John Symonds, 

"at the time that Sir Oxley was persewed by three or four stagekeepers, 
he, standinge in Allhalowes Churchyard, did take vpp a stone and threw 
[it] after the stagekeepers, which lyted between two of them, which he 
did to defend Sir Oxley;. ..that stone did lyte against Trinity garden 
wall, and he threw noe more but that; and but for that he beleiveth 
Sir Oxley had been felled, for uppon that they left persewing Sir Oxley 
and came into the chux'chyarde to follow this deponent 2 ." 

Several witnesses agree that neither Elborough nor Oxley 
were armed 3 ; and Paul Marchant of Jesus College swore that 
Oxley " was pursued by stagekeepers to St John's Rayles and 
beat with clubs on the head three or four times"; "where- 
upon," says Robert Slegg, constable of the parish of S. Sepul- 
chre, " some schollers did cry out for Clubbs, and not long after 
there were many long clubs, and pieces of iron and cob-rakes 
brought into the street 4 ." 

Dr Heron 5 , of Trinity College, a Doctor in Divinity, and, as 
he was at least fifty years old, not likely to be led away by the 
excitement of the moment, deposed that Sir Elborrow's wound, 
which was shewn to him soon after it was inflicted, was not 
severe ; and gave a different account, as might be expected, of 
the subsequent events. According to him 

" he and one Sir Oxley, who was also by, wer very unrulye, and pressed 
forward against the stagekeepers, and would not by any good perswasion 
that he could use give back; wheruppon he, this examinant, willed the 
stagekeepers to give back even to the Colledge gates ; and then presently 
the Clubbmen in great number followed and pressed after; and then 

1 Evidence of Robert Oxley, No. 56, p. 33. See also p. 15. 

2 Evidence of John Symonds, No. 20, p. 22. See also No. 43, p. 29. 

3 For instance see evidence of Jeffry Allott, No. 18, p. 20; and of Marchant 
of Jesus College, No. 42, p. 28. What Marchant says is corroborated by Gerard 
Cutler, undergraduate of S. John's, No. 43, p. 29. 

4 Evidence of Rob. Slegg, No. 5, p. 16. 

6 Samuel Heme or Heron, B.A. 1578, M.A. 1582, B.D. 1587, D.D. 1595. 
See his evidence, No. 19, p. 21. 



THE RIOT, FROM BEGINNING TO END. XV 

presently one Mr Johnson, President of S. John's, did come to putt them 
back, and did box some, and perswade others to goe backe, but they would 
in no weaa be perswaded. Wheruppon he, this examinant, seeing stones 
throwen out Mr Tompson's garden, did bid them to leave throwing, 
which they presently did. The .stones were thrown after that the Clubbmen 
came, and would not suffer the stagekeepers to keepe the walke, and cried 
out : ' Clubbs ! Clubbs ! ' and, ' Brake downe there gates ' ; and the stones 
were thrown only to the corner of the walke to keepe the Clubbmen off the 
walke." 

It is by no means easy to make out the sequence of events 
in this Homeric combat ; each witness saw what passed under 
his own eyes and no more ; and, as always happens on such 
occasions, neither spectators nor combatants kept any accurate 
account of time. One event, however, does emerge from the 
tangle of confused testimonies — the appearance of Mr Coote of 
Trinity College. He had been a Scholar of the House, and was 
a Master of Arts ; but for this occasion he had donned a white 
freize jerkin, and held in one hand a sword, and in the other a 
dagger, and was acting as a stagekeeper. 

The tumult which had begun with Elborough's rough treat- 
ment, and been continued by Oxley and others, had attracted 
the notice of the authorities, and by six o'clock the Vice-Chan- 
cellor, Fogg Newton, D.D., Provost of King's College, appeared 
upon the scene. He advanced along the street as far as the 
gate of S. John's College ; and probably his presence, together 
with the efforts of their own President, and of Dr Richard 
Clayton of the same College, delayed the exit of the Johnians. 
This moment, when there was a temporary lull in the tumult, 
was selected by the self-elected champion of Trinity College 
for the utterance of a defiant challenge. Advancing to the end 
of Trinity walk — that is the long passage before the gates — he 
reached the gate of the Sun Inn, or, as some said, the gate of 
All Saints Churchyard, and holding his dagger by the point, 
shouted out : " Where be these Johnians ? Is there none of 
the rogues will answer a man ? Zounds, I will throw my 
dagger amongst them." These words he repeated once or 
twice, and, according to one witness, he was answered thus: 
" Yes, there are twenty scholars in St John's that dare answer 
you, but this is noe time to challenge, when others are troubled 



XVI INTRODUCTION. 

to make peace." Another witness gives a very diverting con- 
clusion to the defiance : " he [the witness] believeth that 
Mr Coote did not know that Mr Vice Chancellor was there ; for 
after, when he saw Mr Vice Chancellor come up towards 
Trinity College, he did put the dagger under his arm to 
hide it 1 ." 

The Vice-Chancellor, having done all in his power to keep 
order, went in to Trinity College, and after his departure the 
strife was resumed in a new fashion. About seven o'clock a 
fire of stones began from the top of the tower, as the upper 
storey of the Great Gate is called in the depositions, and from 
the garden (Mr Tompson's) on the right hand of the walk'-. 
Jeffry Allott swore that he " did see manye stones thrown 
downe from Trinity e Colledge tower... after yt Mr Vice Chan- 
cellor was sone in 3 "; and a third witness "saw more than one 
hundred stones thrown from the Tower." These, however, 
were not the only missiles. Sir Vaughan {i.e. John Vaughan 
of S. John's College) was " verve sore hurt from the topp of the 
tower by a sworde throwen thence as he verily beleiveth. It 
was halfe an howre after yt Mr Vice Chancellor was gone in 4 ." 

The Johnians were evidently most anxious to prove that 
none of their men came out with clubs until provoked by the 
stone-throwing from the tower and the garden ; and they were 
specially anxious about the latter, because, being accessible, 
which the tower was not, they made an attempt to capture it. 
It became the centre of the fray, as we shall see directly. 
Jeffry Allott, whose testimony has been quoted already, 

"did see two or three stones thrown out the garden before he saw any 
clubbs come out [from] St John's Colledge, aud himself was smitten with 

1 Evidence of Wm Twelves (Trin.), No. 6, p. 17. Compare with this the 
evidence of Fra. Vicars (Trin.), No. 4, p. 16, and that of Griffin Divall, No. 41, 
p. 28. 

- Evidence of Rob. Slegg, No. 5, p. 17. Paul Thompson or Tomson, one of 
the Senior Fellows, was Senior Bursar in 1611-12, and in 1613-14. (The 
accounts for 1612-13 are lost.) In November, 1614, he was confined in 
Cambridge Castle, as a clipper of coin ; but he was pardoned before his case 
came on for trial. Cooper, Annals, vol. in., p. 72. 

3 Evidence of Jeffry Allott, No. 18, p. 20. 

4 Evidence of Sir Vaughan, No. 40, p. 28. 



THE RIOT, FROM BEGINNING TO END. xvii 

the stone before he saw any clubbs come out or called for ; it was presently 
after yt his master was gone into the comedy 1 ." 

Edward Goodin said : 

"There were manye schollers and others yt threw stones out the 
garden, but remembreth not he sawe any stones thrown out from the 
garden or from Trinitye College tower till the clubbs came out 2 ." 

When the Johnians came out with clubs they made a rush 
at the garden wall — probably at that part of it which was 
behind the Chapel, and therefore could not be seen from the 
Tower. A townsman named My ton or Mytton, armed with a 
long club, and Nicholas Jackson, porter of S. John's College 3 , 
similarly armed, succeeded in pulling part of the walls down. 
" The Porter also did helpe putt downe some of the walles : the 
scholler did most of the harme to the walles 4 ," said George 
Heath. John Bowles, a carpenter, said " that the partyes that 
were in the garden did looke over the garden wall, and throwe 
downe stones ; and then the clubbmen strook at them, and 
divers threw stones over into the garden at them ; and others, 
Myton with a longe clubb, did throwe down the battellments 
at the places where those in the garden did throwe down 
stones ; and after they were down, Myton and Scholes and 
others did putt down the rest of the battlements 5 ." 

When the wall was down the materials were used as ammu- 
nition. This was testified to by Jackson, whose name has been 
mentioned already. He had been supping that night in 
S. John's College cellar " with a scholler bachelor yt attends 
in the buttry"; and on reaching the gate took up a club 
which he saw lying on the ground, and thus provided went to 
Trinity walk. On his way he was struck, " by Allhallows 
wall," by " a stagekeeper in why te harnesse." The most im- 

1 Evidence, No. 18, p. 21. See also the evidence of Isaac Wood, under- 
graduate of Christ's College, No. 17, p. 20. 

2 Evidence, No. 29, p. 21. 

8 See his evidence, No. 49, p. 30. 

4 Evidence of Geo. Heath, No. 30, p. 24. 

5 Evidence, No. 32 a, p. 25. See especially that of John Symonds, No. 32 b, 
p. 25. 



xviil INTRODUCTION. 

portant part of his evidence for my purpose is the concluding 
paragraph : 

" A scholler of St John's, as he thinketh, was the fyrst that began to 
throwe down the walls ; for that he was smyten with a stone of the wall 
and his head broken ; and theruppon he begane the throwinge of stones 
of the College wall ; he did assaye to putt down the wall but could not ; 
but Myton and divers other schollers did throwe downe the walls l ." 

The attack on the garden appears to have decided the fray 
in favour of S. John's. It may be conjectured that those of 
Trinity College who were directing the fire from the tower 
were afraid of hitting their own men, or perhaps, for a few 
minutes, they ran short of ammunition, more of which, as we 
shall see, was presently brought. Whatever was the cause 

" the stagekeepers were beaten into the college gates with longe clubbs, 
and one Higle with a sworde came out, and cut one with a longe clubb 
[but] without cloke or gowne, and then Mr Rone [i.e. Humphrey Roane, 
Master of Arts 1604] was felled by a clubb-man, and then the stagekeej)ers 
durst noe more come out the gates, but divers continued flynging of 
stones out the garden, or from the topp of the tower-." 

The Johnians complained further that, even if they suc- 
ceeded in reaching the gate, they were not allowed to enter, 
" Mr Goldingham [one of the Fellows] keeping the key about 
him," and were " remaunded from gate to gate with much 
coarse and uncivill usage 3 ." A few got into the court, but their 
experiences were even more disagreeable, notwithstanding the 
promise made by Dr Nevile, Master, " for the kynd usage 
of our scholars 4 ." Sir Mason [B.A. 1G09] " was lynked there... 
after he was kyndly had into the college by one Sir Chappell 
[a Fellow], by a stagekeeper that wore a green suyte with puffes, 
and another in a redd suyte did putt him backe and lynke him 
from the Hall Dour to the gate 5 ." Mr Layfield of S. John's 
[Master of Arts 1G10] got as far as the Hall door and "was putt 

1 Evidence of Nicholas Jackson, No. 49, p. 30. 

2 Evidence of John Symonds, No. 32 b, p. 25. 

3 See d, § 14, p. 6. 

4 See a, § 4, p. 2. 

6 Evidence, No. 12, p. 19. 



THE RIOT, FROM BEGINNING TO END. XIX 

by by a stagekeeper in a rugg gowne and a Steele cap, whom 
they say was a Master of Arts and Fellow, down the stayres, and 
not suffered to enter." Mr Layfield's dramatic enthusiasm got 
the better of his prudence, for he made another attempt to get 
in, and succeeded ; but, falling into conversation with a stage- 
keeper, he was asked of what college he was, and when he said 
of S. John's, the stagekeeper exclaimed : " What the devell do 
you here ? What reason have you, being of St John's, to offer 
to come in ? and so did lynk him and thrust him down 1 ." On 
the same night Mr Williams, a Master of Arts of S. John's 
College of five years' standing, succeeded with difficulty in 
getting into Trinity College by the Caius Gate, i.e. what we 
now call the Queen's Gate ; and when he was in, Mr Stanhope, 
one of the Fellows, "did saye and swere that he did wonder 
that any St John's College man would be soe impudent as to 
come in 2 " ; and Sir Dawson of S. John's (B.A. 1009) was linked 
out of the College by Nevill senior, an undergraduate and 
stagekeeper 3 . 

" What great events from little causes spring ! " says the 
poet ; and, so far as I can make out, the sole cause of this 
unseemly riot was dislike of two Johnians named Cooper. 
Francis Cooper was a Bachelor of Arts of 1608, and subse- 
quently, in 1620, became a Bachelor of Divinity ; Henry 
Cooper was a Bachelor of Arts of 1610. The depositions are 
full of warning to these two gentlemen not to come to the 
plays. For instance, Mr Wilkinson of Trinity (M.A. 1609), 
dining with Dawson and Huttou, two Bachelors of Arts of 
S. John's College, desired Dawson to be the bearer of the 
following message : 

"I would wish them that be Sir Couper's [i.e. Henry Cooper] frends to 
tell Sir Couper that yf he doe come to Trynitye Colledge, it were well that 
he were brought in by some frends, for in regarde of some private quarele 
he did feare otherwyse he would be abused 4 ." 

1 Evidence of Tho. Layfield, No. 37, p. 27. Compare the treatment of 
Geoffrey Copley, No. 39, p. 28. 

2 Evidence of Mr Williams, No. 33, p. 2G. 

3 Evidence of Tho. Layfield, No. 37, p. 27, and of Geo. Feme, No. 16, p. 20. 

4 Evidence of Rob. Dawson, No. 8, p. 17. 



XX INTRODUCTION. 

In his own evidence Wilkinson made the same statement 
in rather different words : 

"for yt he had heard that Sir Couper had wronged some of those he 
did thinke would he stagekeepers, he entreated them to tell Mr Couper 
yt for the love he bare unto him he would wish him [to] forbeare cominge 
there, for fere of beinge wronged V 

The constable of Trinity Parish (Thomas Whaley) deposed 
to having overheard a conversation three weeks before, in the 
course of which some scholars of Trinity College had said : 

"yf the Sir Coupers Johannis went to Trynity Colledge comedyes they 
should be beaten, because they were noted to have wronged Trynitye 
College men 2 " ; 

and Sir Whaley of S. John's College, being seated by the fire 
in the Sun Inn, about a fortnight before the plays began, 
heard another scholar of Trinity say : 

"yf the Sir Coopers came to Trynetye Colledge Comedies he would no 
be in ther cases for one hundred pounds, they would be soe beaten they 
would be neere spoiled 3 ." 

To this special dislike of the Messrs Cooper must be added 
a general ill-feeling against all Johnians. One Thomas Wilkin- 
son of Trinity swore that he was asked in Halliwell the Barber's 
shop by a member of S. John's College " how the ladds of 
St John's should be used ? " and that he answered " Well ; for... 
the Master and Seniors had commanded that all should be 
well used and especially St John's men " : but that the Johnian 
had said " It makes noe matter ; our ladds have provided them 
great long clubbs 4 ." 

There was plenty of evidence forthcoming that ammuni- 
tion, in the shape of stones, had been laid up for some time 
previously ; but much of it was based on what people had been 
heard to say, and probably would not bear the test of cross- 
examination. For instance, Mrs Frisby, wife to John Frisby, 
an apothecary, who lived near the Sun Inn, opposite to Trinity 

1 Evidence of Mr Wilkinson, No. 10, p. 18. 

2 Evidence of Tho. Whaleye, No. 14, p. 20. 

3 Evidence of Win. Whaley, No. 21, p. 22. 

4 Evidence of Tho. Wilkinson, No. 1, p. 15. 



THE RIOT, FROM BEGINNING TO END. XXI 

College, told her neighbours that four scholars of that House, 
who came into her shop to buy tobacco, 

" spake there of some provision of stones layd npp in the towers or garden 
or therabout, and also of some buckets to be provyded to fetch water 
from the conduyte to powre downe upon St John's menne from the tower 1 ." 

This vague expression " some provision " was improved by- 
Agnes Barnes, maid servant to Andrew Goodwin, who had 
overheard Mrs Frisby talking to her neighbours, into " a loade 
and a halfe - " ; and Jane Hall swore that she had heard one of 
two scholars, passing by in the street, say : " Here will be old 
scuffling at this end of the towne within these three or foure 
nights ; for we heare that ther are stones prepared to fling 
from the towers " — to which the other replied : " Those that 
they should hitt they would be paid home 3 ." A further piece of 
hearsay evidence related that on Thursday morning — the day 
after the first night — Sir Feme, a scholar of Trinity College, 
reported " that the foregoing night ther were six boyes which 
carryed upp stones in ther hatts to maynteyne them that threw 
from the towers 4 " ; but, in answer to this, John Muncaster 
deposed that though he had seen "a great heape of stones" 
lying " on the backe syde of Trynitye Colledge in Garrett 
Ostell" before Christmas, and had subsequently missed the 
said heap, he Avas informed, on inquiry, " yt they were carryed 
unto Kings College to be ther paved out 5 ." 



5. The court and the sentence. 

From very early times the authorities of the University 
were allowed to deal with offences committed by their own 
members — usually referred to as "clerks" — without interference 
from any external authority. Finally, Queen Elizabeth, in her 
letters patent dated 26 April, 1561, granted to the Chancellor, 
Masters and Scholars (this is the phrase used), 

1 Bill of complaint, [a], No. 2, p. 2. 

2 Evidence of Agnes Barnes, No. 13, p. 20. 

3 Evidence of Jane Hall, No. 31, p. 24. 

4 Bill of complaint, [a], No. 3, p. 2. 

5 Evidence of John Muncaster, No. 32, p. 24. 



XX11 INTRODUCTION. 

that they and their lieutenants for the time being may take cognisance 
before themselves of all and all manner of personal pleas, as well of debts, 
accounts, other contracts whatsoever, and wrongs, as of trespasses against 
the peace, and misprisions whatsoever... entered and done within the 
aforesaid town and its suburbs... where and whensoever any Master or 
Scholar or servant of a Scholar or common servant of the University shall 
be one of the parties. 

And all and singular pleas and trespasses of this kind the aforesaid 
Chancellor and Scholars and their lieutenants and successors may hear 
hold and finally determine wheresoever they may choose within the town 
and its suburbs, and thereupon may do execution according to their laws 
and customs in use aforetime ; and that- the court of the said Chancellor 
Masters and Scholars respecting such pleas and trespasses aforesaid may 
be a court of record. . . . 

And if any delinquent or defendant, or any delinquents or defendants, 
should be found guilty in any action, complaint, or trespass of this kind, 
to compel all and singular such delinquents, guilty persons, and defendants, 
to make satisfaction of all things wherein they were found guilty, or any 
one of them was found guilty, according to the laws and customs of the 
said University in use aforetime, or according to the statutes of this Our 
realm of England now published or in future to be published 1 . 

In the Statutes given by the same Queen nine years after- 
wards (25 September, 1570) the Masters and Scholars are not 
mentioned, but the Chancellor alone is empowered "to hear and 
settle out of hand (summarie) all controversies affecting academic 
persons and their servants, without any solemnity of law except 
that which we shall prescribe, in accordance with civil law, and 
their own customs and privileges 2 ." Evildoers are to be punished 
by suspension of their degrees, by imprisonment, or by some 
lighter punishment. In certain specified cases the Heads of 
Colleges are to be consulted, and the consent of a majority of 
that body is to be obtained — a provision which probably deter- 
mined the constitution of the court until 1858, when the 
Chancellor's jurisdiction was subdivided as at present, one 
court dealing with the offences of those who are in static 
jmpillari, the other with those of persons who have proceeded 
to their first degree at least. 

1 Letters Patent of Elizabeth [etc.]. Ed. J. W. Clark. 8vo. Camb. 1892, 
p. 8. 

2 Coiitin. Due. i. 479. The passage here quoted is translated from the forty- 
second statute, De cancellarii officio. See also Report of H.M.'s Commissioners, 
1852, p. 4. 



THE COURT AND THE SENTENCE. XX111 

It will be understood that in practice the Vice-Chancellor 
for the time being takes the place of the Chancellor ; and that 
any provision in the Statutes affecting the Chancellor is equally 
binding upon the Vice-Chancellor. 

We will next examine the constitution of the court which 
heard our case. When the proceedings began, 11 February, 
1610-11, the Vice-Chancellor presided, with three assessors 
(p. 14), but he is not mentioned afterwards. By "three 
assessors" we are to understand, I suppose, that three Heads 
of Colleges were present. 

From the two accounts of the sentence (pp. 35, 36), we 
gather that the Court was composed of the following nine 
persons : 

William Branthwaite, D.D., Master of Gonville and Caius ; 
Valentine Carey, D.D., Master of Christ's; Laurence Chaderton, 
D.D., Master of Emmanuel ; John Duport, D.D., Master of 
Jesus ; Dr Hill (perhaps Samuel Hill of Trinity, D.D. 1608) ; 
Dr Ratcliff (perhaps Jeremiah Ratcliff of Trinity, D.D. 1588); 
John Richardson, D.D., Master of Peterhouse, afterwards 
Master of Trinity; Humphry Tyndall, D.D., President of 
Queens' ; and, lastly, Samuel Ward, D.D., Master of Sidney 
Sussex. 

Seven of these were Heads of Colleges ; the remaining two, 
if my determination be correct, were Fellows of Trinity College, 
who would be summoned to watch a case in which they were 
so deeply interested. The Master, Dr Nevile, was not present, 
so far as we can tell. 

The first form of the sentence (p. 35) which was signed by 
seven members of the Court including the two Fellows of Trinity, 
deals with the members of the University only. The date of the 
meeting has, unfortunately, not been preserved. As usual on 
those occasions, there was the party of mercy, or rather, of delay, 
represented by Dr Carey, Master of Christ's ; and I agree with 
the theory that the line drawn across the signatures indicates 
that the other members of the Court came over to his opinion, 
namely, that execution of the sentence ought to be deferred 
until the names of all the delinquents had been discovered. 

When we turn to the second form of the sentence (p. 36), 



XXIV INTRODUCTION. 

we find that the first paragraph only has the force of a binding 
document, the signatures being appended to it, and not to the 
end of the paper. The signatories are four of those who had 
signed the first form, namely Doctors Branthwaite, Carey, 
Duport, and Richardson, with the addition of Doctors Chatterton 
(Chaderton) and Ward. The new clause merely provides a 
more business-like method of estimating the value of the 
damage done. 

Below the signatures are some notes, which introduce no 
new principle, but only develop the punishments agreed to at 
the previous meeting — unless indeed the committal to prison 
of those persons who had carried arms be regarded as a novelty. 
In the following paragraphs I have expanded the first sentence, 
and sorted its provisions under separate heads, incorporating 
therewith the second sentence, so far as it can be considered a 
gloss upon the first. 

1. The cost of repairing all damaged walls and broken 
windows is to be estimated by two Senior Fellows of the two 
Colleges, and by two workmen, and the amount is to be 
refunded "by the berers of clubbs and throwers of stones." 

2. Sir Heath (Tho. Heath, B.A. of Trinity College) who 
began the fray by assaulting Sir Elborough ; Mr Coote (of 
Trinity College), who challenged the Johnians to fight with 
him; and Sir Symonds (John Symonds, B.A., Joh.), are all to 
be suspended, that is, suspended from the degree which they 
had already taken, and not allowed to proceed to any higher 
degree. 

3. " Stone casters " are to be suspended if graduates ; if 
non-graduates they are to be whipped. 

4. Bachelors who had used clubs are to be suspended ; 
but non-graduates who had used clubs are to be whipped, and 
they are not to proceed to any degree until the Vice-Chancellor 
give them leave. 

5. Three stagekeepers who had been specially violent, 
namely the one who had assaulted Oxley and Elborough, and 
two others known only by their dress, are to be suspended, 
when identified. 



THE COURT AND THE SENTENCE. XXV 

6. Geo. Stanhope and Edw. Goldingham, both Fellows of 
Trinity College, and Coote, scholar, are to be censured by 
Dr Nevile. The two former had refused to allow Johnians to 
enter by the Great Gate, while the latter had challenged them 
to fight with him. 

7. The conduct of Sir Rob. Oxley, B.A. (Joh.), is to be 
dealt with by the Master of S. John's College. 

Lastly we come to a very important point, the way in which 
the townsmen who had taken part in the riot were dealt with. 
At the end of the paper is the following sentence : 

Nicholas Jackson (Porter of S. John's College), John Parry, 
Fordam, Jarmin Warde, and Daniel Boyse were " to be com- 
mitted to prison, and then to be brought out to the stage made 
at the bullring, and thereupon to be set in the stocks, with 
papers in text letters with these inscriptions," namely, their 
names at full length. 

Jackson was the Porter of S. John's who threw down the 
battlements of the garden wall at Trinity ; about Parry's mis- 
deeds we know nothing ; Fordam is mentioned as having 
supped on the first night with Jackson 1 ; Jarmin Warde was a 
townsman who said that he " was offered 40/ s . to be stage- 
keeper at Trinity College 2 "; Daniel Boyse was stepson to 
Jarmin Warde, and a stagekeeper 3 . 

We have no means of ascertaining whether this extremely 
severe sentence was ever carried out. As mentioned above, 
the only part of the document which can be taken seriously is 
the opening paragraph, with its six signatures. The rest may 
be merely notes of what was said at the meeting, when certain 
proposals were made and jotted down by the Registrary for use 
on a subsequent occasion. There may have been a third meeting 
of which we know nothing. 

1 Evidence, No. 49, p. 30. 

- Evidence, Nos. 23, 25, 28. 

8 Evidence, No. 22. Boyse was a bookbinder. In the Univ. Accounts for 
1616-17 we find: "Item to Daniell Boyse for binding the booke geiven to his 
Maiestie, xxiiij 8 ." 



THE RECORD OE THE VICE-CHANCELLOR'S 

COURT. 



The MS. begins as follows : 

Feb. 11th 1610. A byll of complaynt exhibited by 
the Fellows and Schollers of St Jhons Col- 
ledge AGAYNST CERTAYNE INIURYES AND OUTRAGES 

committed agaynst them by the stagekeepers of 
Trinity Colledge att ther two last comedyes. 

Touching the first night we charge them with the Inten- 
tion, the beginning and occasion, as also the execution, of the 
tuniulte and disorder. 

[A.] First, they intended itt. 

1. On Tuesday Carre, a scholler of Trinitye Colledge, 
puple vnto Mr Bartiu, counselled his brother a student of our 
Colledge to beware he came not amongst the crowde the night 
followinge ; wherof he gave this reason : That ther skulls, by 
the appoyntment of some of ther Fellowes, had gathered and 
layd vp in the towre as many stones as wold fill a large studye. 
Of this relation we desyre that Carre of St Jhons may be 
deposed. 

2. The Goodwyfe Freisbien on Weddensday att night, 
when stagekeepers wer [abroad] l , related vnto hir neyghbours 
that foure Schollers, more or lesse, of Trinity Colledge, coming 

1 Words inserted above the line by the original author of the MS., are 
inclu led between square brackets. 

C. A. S. Octavo Series. No. XLIIL 1 



2 RECORD OF VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT. 

into her shopp for Tobacco, att whatt tyme we certaynly [know 
not], spake ther of some provision of stones layd vpp in the 
towers or garden or therabout, and also of some buckets to be 
provyded to fetch water from the conduyte to powre downe 
vpon St Jhons menne from the towre. Of this we desyre that 
this goodwife Freisbyen may be deposed, and vpon oath re- 
quyred to speake, whether she heard any such words in her 
shopp or els wher ; whether she knew or could guess att ye 
names of those Schollers ; how many they wer in number, 
whatt quantitye of stones they spake of, what number of 
buckets also; and in what "places they wer layd. If she deny 
this, then we desyre thatt Agnes Barnes rnaydeservaunt vnto 
Andrew Goodwyn may be deposed concerning this goodwyfe 
Freisbien, what words she overheard her speake vnto hir 
neyghbours ; otherwise not. 

3. Sir Feme of Trinity Colledge, on Thursday morning, 
being in moother Benn's howse betwixt tenne and eleven of ye 
clocke, reported thatt the foregoing night ther wer six boyes 
which carry ed vpp stones in ther hatts to maynteyne them 
that threw from the towres. Of this we desyre thatt the 
deposition taken yesterday may be read. 

4. Thatt notwithstandinge the [kynd] promise made by 
Mr Deane of Canterbury 1 for y e kynd vsage of our Schollers, 
yett they intended to revenge certayne private quarrells vppon 
some persons. Of this we desyre Mr Wilkinson of Trinity 
Colledg should be sworne whether on Weddensday he wished 
Sir Dawson to forewarne Sir Cooper from cumming to ther 
comedy, bycause, yf he came, he shold be abvsed. We desyre 
also yt Sir Dawson and Sir Hutton may be deposed whether 
they heard Mr Wilkinson vse theese words. 

[B.] They wer the occasion and begining of the 

TUMULTE. 

[a] In generall behaviour towards our Colledge. 

5. We charge them thatt they did not dash any lynks on 
them which stood on the other syde towards St Maryes (not- 

1 Dr Tho. Nevile, Master of Trinity College. 



COMPLAINT OF S. JOHNS COLLEGE. 3 

withstanding in a manner all yt came to ye Comedy both 
Masters of Arts and gentlemen straungers wer to passe thatt 
waye) ; thatt they only wafted ther clubbs 1 easyly before them, 
and fayrly entreated them. Butt on this syde, towards our 
Colledge, was noe such behaviour, but rude and barbarous 
vsage of ther lynks and clubbs. Of this we desyre Sir Augur 
of St Jhons shold be deposed. Also we produce Sir Marchante 
of Jesus Colledge, whom we desyre vpon oath to be examined, 
whether he did not perceyve any such kynd of dealinge as we 
accuse them of; whether he did not thervpon advise some of 
his owne colledge to departe from that syde wher they stoode, 
least being mistaken for St Jhons menne, they shold be 
abvsed, and both he and they vpon that motion remooved to 
the other syde wher they stood peacably ; whether he knew 
any other St Jhons menne in sight of the stagekeepers besydes 
theese two Sir Elborow and Sir Oxlye ; whether they wer not 
lynked more than any other ; whether they stood not orderly, 
as other menne, before ther lynking ; whether they stood not 
in the same ranke with others. 

[b] In particular. 

6. Sir Elborow about fyve of ye clocke, when supper was 
ended in our hall, went towards Trinity Colledge, wher stand- 
ing in the foreranke without ther rayles, together with the rest 
of ye company, having noe weapon about him, a stagekeeper 
apparrelled in a light colour suyte of Saye with [a small] lace of 
ye same colour, coming towards him, dasht him with his lynke 
once or twise, which he endured. Soone after by another 
stagekeeper he was cutt in ye hand with a sworde ; when this 
was done no clubbs wer come forth or called. Of this we 
desyre yt Mr D 01 ' Heme may speake his knowledge, whether 
this playntife shewed any wownd vnto him ; whether he did 
not answer thatt he knew not how to helpe itt ; whether att 
thatt tyme of his complaynt he sawe any clubbs stirringe. 
Also we produce Sir Marchant foff Jesus, whom we requyre to 
speak vpon oath whether he perceyved any occasion gyven by 
Sir Elborow or noe, of his lynking and striking; whether he 

1 MS., clubb. 

1—2 



4 RECORD OF VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT. 

saw or did beleive he had any weapon about him ; whether he 
saw him speaking to D or Heme. Also we produce in this 
poynt Sir Augur Johannis. 

7. About or att the same tyme Sir Oxly, standing peacably 
by Sir Elborow expecting kyndnes from some stagekeepers vnto 
him (he had lent two or three stagekeepers suytes) was imme- 
diatly vpon his first entrance 1 , by a stagekeeper in a whyte 
suyte guarded with redd lace having a headpeace on his head, 
sett vpon, who first thrust his clubb agaynst his breast, then 
lynked him in the face and e... 1 one twise or oftener ; 
then, stepping backe, returnd presently with ... 1 other stage- 
keeper bearing 2 a torch not lighted and a clubb; both stroke 1 
feircly at him. He, taking from them a torch, shifted for him- 
selfe vntill, yt breaking, he fiedd towards the Colledge pursued 
by three stagekeepers as farr allmost as Allhallowes Church ; 
and by a fourth, thought generally to be Mr Roane, [nigh] vnto 
ye Colledge gates, all striking on him with ther clubbs and 
lynks as he fiedd. Of this we desire Robert Slegge shold be 
deposed, and requyred first to answer whether he were sent for 
the last night vnto Mr Hall his chamber in Trinity Colledge, 
and whatt speach was vsd to him touching this buisines. 
Then we desyre he be [requyred] to speake his knowledge of 
this matter, whether he saw or did beleive that Sir Oxly had 
any weapon about him or noe, etc. 

We produce agayne Sir Marchant, Jesus, Fowler and Cutler 
Johannis, all which we desyre may be lykewise deposed, whether 
any clubbs wer come forth or called for before this fact was 
done. 

8. Thatt before any clubbs wer come forth many stones 
wer throwen, and diverse 3 in yt company smitten and wownded 
therwith ; which stones wer throwne from Mr Thompson's 
garden commonly soe called. Of this poynt we desyre the 
deposition taken yesterday may be read ; and also thatt Jeffry 
Allot may be examined vpon oath to speake his knowledge ; 

1 MS. imperfect here. A small strip of paper has been torn off. 

2 MS., bearer. 
:! MS., divese. 



COMPLAINT OF S. JOHN S COLLEGE. 5 

and also Wood of Christs Colledge be required vpon oath to 
speake whether he knew not yt a Scholler of Christs Colledge 
fwasf [smoten] with a stone from this garden, before any 
clubbs wer come forth. 



[C] For they also executed. 

9. Sir Pratt of St Jhons standing by the Sunn gates, 
with his face agaynst Trinity Colledge, was smytten and sore 
wownded on the forehead with a stone thrown from the towre. 
Wittnes Sir Pagett, Caii. 

30. Sir Vaughan also was greivously bruised on the head 
with a stone throwne from ye towre. Wittnes: Hilton, Christi; 
Smyth, Johan. 

11. Thatt when Mr Vicechauncellour and D or Cleyton wer 
pacifying the tumult risen, in thatt verry interim, notwith- 
standing the presence of both theese, Mr Coote did in chal- 
linging wise vse theese or such lyke braving and provoking 
speaches : " Wher ar theese roaguish Jonnians ? Is ther any 
of them thatt dares answer me." Of this we desyre thatt 
William Twelves and Vicars be deposed whether they heard 
him vse any such speaches, and whether, when he vsed them, 
he had a drawne sword in his hande. We produce also 
Gryffith Dyvall. 

12. Thatt Mr Layfeild M r of Arts was much wrongd att 
ther hall dore by a stagekeeper in a rugge gowne and a head- 
peace. Of this we desyre yt he may declare his iniuryes, and 
Mr Metcalfe and Sir Dawson be deposed for proofe. 

13. Thatt Sir Dawson was lykewise wronge by 2 stage- 
keepers Sir Andrews and Nevill. For the fact Mr Layfeild and 
Mr Metcalfe canne depose. For ye persons Sir Feme and Sir 
Bins of Trinitye. The first told Sir Dawson yt itt was Nevill, 
the seconde heard Nevill speake itt. 



6 RECORD OF VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT. 

[D.] Greivances and abvses offered ye Second night. 

14. Thatt the Hall being almost filled with Masters of 
Arts of other Colledges and Schollers, and menne also of worse 
condicion, and this by ye meanes of privy gates and passages, 
yett the ordinary [way by ye] foregates was shutt vpp 
(Mr Goldingham keeping ye key about him), and the Masters 
of Arts of St Jhons fweref remaimded from gate to gate with 
much coarse 1 and vncivill vsage. We charge with this practise 
Mr Goldingham, Mr Stanhope, and others in company then, 
with them vnknown to vs. We produce in wittnes Mr Burnell, 
Cecill, Grace, Williams. 

15. Thatt Sir Mason one of our Fellows was by two of ye 
clock in the afternoone forbydden the Colledge by Mr Golding- 
ham, and threatned, yf he shold adventure to see ther comedy. 
Thatt he was nevertheless brought into ye comedy by a 
stagekeeper, and ther wrongd. We desyre he may declare 
how vpon his oath, and by whom, as neere as he canne. 
Mr Horsmander Johan: canne wittnes some parte of this 
wronge. 

16. Thatt Sir Osburne standing peacably amongst ye com- 
pany e was carry ed by a stagekeeper to ye gate, wher another 
stagekeeper lynked him backe, and in his returne he was felled 
to the grownde by a stagekeeper wearing a redd suyte laced 
downwards with whyte and a capp of harries. 

17. Thatt Baguly a Scholler of our Colledge, sent lor by 
Mr Hall senior of ye Colledge, and abyding by his appoynt- 
ment within his chamber etc.; we desyre he may declare vpon 
oath, and bring wittnes, Pilgrim Johan. 

18. Thatt during all ye tyme of y er comedye stagekeepers 
walkt ther courte inquyring after St Jhons menne. 

Thatt after ye comedy ended Sir Augur, going downe ther 
Hall stayre, was ther stroke vpon the backe with a clubb so 
violently yt itt was hard for him to keep his feet. We desyre 
he may declare and depose. 

1 MS., course. 



COMPLAINT OF S. JOHN'S COLLEGE. 7 

[E.] We intreat that touching the [further] proof 
and manifestation of a quarrell intended by them 
of Trinity Colledge that theese wittnesses follow- 
ing MAY BE PRODUCED AND EXAMINED VPON OATH, VIZ. : 

19. Sir Whaly Johannis. Whether about three weeks 
synce he being in presence with some Schollers of Trinity 
Colledge att the Signe of ye Sunne, did not heare it spoken 
by Schollers of Trinity Colledge : Thatt yf the two Sir Coopers 
came to ye comedy es they shold be nere kylled, or to the lyke 
effect ; and whether he knew any of those schollers. 

20. Jermyn Warde lodging att Lawsons the Barbars 
[house]. Whether he was not entreated to be a stagekeeper 
on Weddensday night ; and whether ther was not an offer 
made to him of 40 s , or some other reward, yf he wold so doe. 
Also whether he doe not know or credibly beleive yt his sonne 
Boyse was stagekeeper ther, and in what suyte he was to his 
beleife. 

If he deny itt, we desyre yt Sir Symonds, Johan, and 
Lawson ye Barbar 1 , whether they heard him avouch such 
things. Also we produce Ethrington, Johan. 

21. fJohnf Muncaster. Whether within this fortenight 
or therabout he did not see a good quantity of stones heaped 
vp together within Garret Hostle ; and whether within two 
days before ye comedy [or theiabouts] he did not see and 
perceyve those stones to be carryed awaye, and whether he 
know or have credibly heard whatt is become of them. 

[22] We desyre thatt Smarte the Porter may be deposed 
and examined vpon oath, whether he was not att Mr Kempe 
his chamber in Trinity Colledge [soone after ther comedye] ; 
whether he wer not brought thither by a wyle, and what this 
devise was ; whether he wer not ther requyred to wittnes 
agaynst our colledge or some persons in, or belonging, or 
thought att thatt tyme to have some dependance of, our 
Colledge, viz.; whether they attempted not to perswade him 
yt he was in the company, and further to testifye and saye 

1 Words such as " may be examined" are here omitted. 



8 RECORD OF VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT. 

thatt Jackson was hyred by some of our colledge agaynst this 
night. Also whether the sayd Sniarte wer not sent from 
Mr Kemp his chamber vnto the porters lodge and ther 
deteyned 3 or 4 howres ? 

[23] We desyre lykewise yt Kinge ye porter may be 
deposed and requyred vpon oath to speake whether he wer 
not soone after ther comedye brought vnto Mr Kempe his 
chamber, or some other chamber in Trinity Colledge ; and 
whether the sayd Kempe did not shew him an aungell, which 
aungell he sware to gyve him vpon condicion ; also vpon wliatt 
occasion and condicion he offered him this aungell. 

[24] We desyre lykewise yt Goodwyf Archer of Ye Crowne 
may be deposed whether Warde of Trinity Colledge came not 
vnto Sir Cooper then in her house, and weeping confessed 
he had done him wronge, and withall intreated his helpe to 
excuse ye matter. Also whether she heard him say anything 
concerning his carrying vnto ye Deanes chamber, and whatt 
thatt was. 

[E\] TOUCHINGE YE FURTHER MANIFESTATION OF YE BEGIN- 
ING OF THE TUMULTE BETWIXT THE STAGEKEEPERS AND 
SCHOLLERS OF St JHONS. 

[25] We desyre yt Sir Elborow may be deposed whether 
he did not see a sworde drawne by ye stagekeeper, and whether 
himselfe was not stroken and wownded in his hand and arme 
with a sworde by one of ye stagekeepers, and whatt suyte this 
stagekeeper wore as farr as he knoweth or beleiveth. Also 
whether this sworde was not drawne, and he stroken with itt 
(as is sayde), before such tyme as any clubbs came from our 
colledge. 

[26] Lykewise we desyre thatt Shittleworth student of 
St Jhons may be requyred vpon oath to speake whether he 
was not stroke [and felled] to ye grown d by a stagekeeper 
before such tyme as any clubbs wer come forth. 

[27] To this end we further desyre thatt Ekins of St Jhons 
may be deposed vpon theese interrogatoryes following, viz. : 



COMPLAINT OF S. JOHN'S COLLEGE. 9 

Whether he wer present-when the stagekepers pursued Sir Oxly 
towards our colledge ; whether att the same tyme while he 
was thus pursued other stagekeepers did not pursue divers 
Schollers towards Allhallows churchyard ; whether he did not 
see this Shittleworth felled to the grownd by a stagekeeper ; 
whether this stagekeeper did not weare a russett coate ; also 
whether this Shittleworth when he was thus felled to ye 
grownde was not hard by ye Church wall. Also whether this 
pursuyte and the felling of this Shittleworth was not done 
before any clubbs came forth our colledge. 

We next enter upon a brief recapitulation of the case for 
S. John's College, divided into heads as the previous Bill of 
Complaint was. It ends with some rough notes of ivitnesses to 
be examined on behalf of the college. 



ST JOHNS. 
[A.] That Trinitye Colledge intended the quarrell. 

[1] Carr Johns deposeth his brother of Trynity bad him 
he should not come at the comedye for the stagekeepers wer 
Masters of Arts, and none but Masters of Arts should come in. 

[2] Fresby his wyfe deposeth that she hard Jane Hall a 
senister saye the daye the first playe was yt Trinity Colledg 
inenn made Pickeringe to laye a loade of stones vppon Trinity 
Colledge Chappell, and this she tould her neighbours. 

Barnes, Goodins mayd, deposeth Frysby his wyfe sayd to 
her neighbours that schollers of Trinitye Colledge sayed that a 
loade and a halfe of stones was layed vppon Trinitye Tower to 
throw downe. 

[B.] That Trinitye begann and occasioned the quarrell. 

[3] Mr Wilkinson deposeth he tould Sir Dawson and 
Sir Hutton, one the daye the fyrst comedye was, at Dinner, 
that he hard Sir Couper had wronged some of Trinitye, and bad 
them tell him he would wish him forbeare cominge there for 
feare of beinge wronged. 

Sir Dawson, Sir Hutton depose the same. 



10 RECORD OF VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT. 



[C] That they occasioned the tumult by lynckinge 
St Johns men, Sir Elborrough, Oxley, etc. 

[4] Sir Augur sayeth Sir Elborrough stood at the corner 
of Trynitye walfkf by the post next St Johns, and a stage- 
keeper putt him of, but, because the presse beinge such he 
went not presently backe, a stagekeeper in a carsey suyte 
smote his torch over his hed, which Elborrough with his 
hande defendinge, was smyten with the stagekeepers clubb one 
his arme, which Sir Oxly seeinge stept forward and helped 
rescue him ; then other stagekeepers came in, one of them 
havinge a torch which Sir Oxly snached awaye, and then Sir 
Elborrough was strooke, and the stagekeepers drew swords, 
but he saw noe man stroke with the sords ; the stagekeepers, 
he sayeth, were more violent with those one St Johns syde 
then those one the other next St Marys ; he sawe Sir Elborough 
give the stagekepers noe occasion to misvse him. He sawe 
Sir Vaughan Johns hawe a clubb or staff ther, and Sir Osborne 
a longe clubb. 

[5] Sir Marchant Jesu, He sawe Sir Elborrough lynct, who 
giveing back, Sir Oxly came neere him ; who beinge also lynct 
would not stirr, wherevppon moore stagekeepers came and lynct 
them, and he sawe Sir Oxly with a torch layeing at the stage- 
keepers, but he was by the stagekeepers persewed to St Johns 
Rayles, and with there clubbs had 3 or 4 blowes in the chase. 
He sawe Sir Elborrough talk with D or Heme, but whereabouts 
he knoweth not. 

[6] Rob. Slegg deposeth Sir Oxley Johannis stood peaceably 
close to the post of Trinitye next St Johns gate, and a stage- 
keeper with his clubb did easely putt him of, but he yelded 
not but verye littell ; then others lyncked him ; wherevppon 
Sir Oxly stirred not, but did mutter, and talke to the stage- 
keepers. Then 2 or 3 stagekeepers layed at him with lynkes, 
and then he gave backe, and watchinge his tyme snacht a torch 
from one of them, and layed about with it at the stagekeepers, 



COMPLAINT OF S. JOHN'S COLLEGE. 11 

but they beate him awaye, and then they cryed Clubbfsf etc., 
and not longe after menye longe clubbs, a peece of yron, a 
colerake, etc. vveere out St Johns brought into the streete, and 
then the stoones begane to be throwen out Trinitye garden, 
and this he sayeth he confessed to Mr Hall Trinitatis. 

[7] Sir Cuttler) . . . 

r /-. „. _ , y agree with these. 
[8] Sir Fowler] e 

[9] Wood Chr fci was before the clubbs came smytten with 
a stone out Trinitye garden. 

[10] Jeffery Allott likewyse with a bricke batt shewed in 
court. 

[11] Hilton Chr 1 ' and Smyth Johannis depose Sir Vaughan 
was hurte with a stone from Trinitye Coll. they beleive y e 
Tower. 

[12] Smyth (Johannis) sawe Sir Osburne lynckt by a 
stagekeper. 

[13] Twelves, Vicars, Divall, depose yt whyle Mr Vice- 
chancellor was at St Johns gate pacyfinge the tumult, etc. 
Mr Coote stagekeeper did come to the walks ende, and braved, 
callinge and sayeinge, "Wher be these Jonians? will any fight 
with me?" having then a naked dager in his hand. 

[14] Vicars sayeth sworde and dagger. 

[15] Mr Metcalfe and Sir Dawson depose they see Mr 
Layfeild Johannis putt downe the stayers at Trinitye Hall 
doore by the stagekepers. 

[16] Sir Dawson Johannis was lyncked out the Colledge. 
Proved. 

[17] Divers Masters of Arts, Bachellers in Divinitye, etc. 
of St Johns College wronged ; and the gates shutt at 5 of the 
clocke. Were putt from gate to gate and hardly suffered to 
enter; being in, offered to be putt out by stagekeepers, and 
searched for weapons. Proved. 

[18] Bagley Johannis sent for to Mr Halls chamber was 
fecht downe and lynckt by stagekeepers. 



12 RECORD OF VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT. 

[19] That Jarmin Warde [a townesman] reported in 
Lawsons shopp he might have had xl s to be stagekeeper at 
Trynitye College. Proved. 

But Jarmyn denyeth it. 

The following notes occur on a sheet of paper at the end of 
the whole document. The numbers are those of tlie depositions. 

For the beginninge of the Quarrell : 

Rob. Slegg 5 

Sir Augur 11 

Sir Marchant 42 

Cutler Fowler 43, 44 

Sir Elborough 55 

Sir Oxley 56 

Mr Dillacre 3 

Sir Linge 4 

Sir Aldred 5 

Tho. Whaley 9 

Rob. Slegg 10 

The throwing stones before clubbs came: 

Winscall sawe 2 stones throwen out the garden. 
Jeffery Allott saw 2 or 3 stones throwen out the garden 

and fwasf himself smitten before clubbs came. 
Wood Chr. 

The throwinge stones not till after clubbs came : 
Rob. Slegg 5 

Dr Heme 19 

E. Goodin 

Bowles, Bettsons man in St Johns depos. 
Tho. Whaley 
Querie what koat Mr Goldingham wore ye first night. 
The second stagekeeper yt lynkt Sir Oxely lykely to be 
Sir Heathe by his suit. 

Examine Webster ye drawer at Tilletts about Sir Oxelyes 
deposition. 

A note of the names of such persons as we desyre to be 
brought into the courte and examined on our behalfe: 



NOTES ON THE QUARREL, 



13 



Trinitatis 



Mr Dilaker co 1 ^ 

Mr Kennston co 

Mr Stanhope co 

Mr Goldingham co 

Sir Aid red co 

Sir Heath co 

Sir Feme ab 

Nevill co 

Carr co 

Mr Thompson is not at home 

Mr Coote 

Sir Andrews 

Sir Marchant of Jesus Coll. 

Wood 

Hilton] 

Sir Pagett Caii non co 

personaliter 3 comparuit 
perquisitus* comparuit 
dwelling in ye towne cofmparuitf 
person aliter fcomparuitf 
fdof fdof v n 



CO 

co j 



Chris 11 co v 11 2 



Robert Slegge 



William Twelves 

Vicars 
Friesbien hiswyfe 

Muncaster 
Archer of ye Crowne personaliter v 
Not examined. 



The following memoranda are written on the back of the 
foregoing document : " A note of the names of such persons," etc. 



Searl usefdf the coate in black 

(Brett 6° 
Burton Johis a . , TT no 
i Sir Warr 6 

Wofyron k^ 



{Sir Symons 5° 



1 The words co and ab after a name signify comparuit and abfuit. 

2 The witness is bound in the sum of £5 to appear to give evidence. 
The amount of the bail is only added to names of members of the University in 
two cases out of sixteen ; and to names of townsfolk in two cases out of six. 

3 Personaliter, i.e. monitus ; when the beadle saw the witness wanted and 
spoke with him in person. 

4 Perquisitus, probably means that the beadle has delivered the summons, 
but failed to see the witness personally. 



14 RECORD OF VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT. 

Sir Osborne Jolris supposed to have a (Sir Warr 6 

clubb |Heath G 

~ , , , (Archers wyfe sayefthf he confessed at 

C owner a clubb ■{ , . , ? , 

( her house he had one, 

and Parry sayeth he saw him have one. 

Jackson had A Club Vicars conf fconfitetur, confesses^ 

Jo. Parry 

the bricks thrown down by Scholes and others f„ T , 

. , tt ,i J Woodrofe 

quaere de quod Heath | 

My ton and Jackson & Scholes threw ( m) „.. . 
, , „ -{Tho. Whaley 

down the walls ( 

T _ , . , ... (Trott deposeth and 

Jo. Parry had a lono- clubb ■{, . , c . r ,, 

J ° (himself in maner coniesseth 

[Proceedings in the Vice-Chancellor's Court.] 

XI Februarii 1610 coram Domino Procancellario assessori- 
bus tribus. 

■^ Brookes of St Johns reported that yf there were not 
good order taken and the scholers of St Johns well vsed there 
would be such trouble as never was before. 

Job. Winscall, famulus Mri Synowes, juratus. He sayeth 
he saw stones thrown out the garden of Trinitye ; he sayeth he 
saw a 100 stones at least throwne of Trynitye College Tower. 

At Benes bowse one Thursdaye about X or XI he hard one 
Sir Feme Trinitatis tell him at mother Benes howse and yt 
there weere halfe a dozen boys that by hatfulls did bring vp 
stones to the Tower to mayntayne them the throwers ; he did 
see 2 stones throwen out the garden corner before any clubbs 
came out or wer called for, he cannot saye that any stones wer 
layed vpp before of purpose to throwe out. Robertus Brooks 
Johis y vt supra he. 

Cotton Trinitatis. It was tould vnto Mr Wilkinson by ... 1 
that except St Johns men were well vsed, there were longe 
clubs provided. 

Thomas Smyth Master of Arts is charged the first night to 
see to the first playe with a sworde vnder his gowne. 
1 The name is omitted iu the MS. 



WITNESSES FOR S. JOHN'S COLLEGE. 15 

Tho. Smyth, Mr of Arts. He sayeth that he had noe sworde, 
raper, dagger, sceyne, hanger, nor clubb. 

Mr Scarlett, Mr Dillacre. This. At the ende of the rayles 
about 5 of the clock he did put back gently, then by a littell 
more roughly, because he mumbled. 

Sir Oxley did take away a [torch] out of Mr Dillacre his 
hande being a stagekeeper, and did strike him and lye at him 
and strike him about the shoulders and hed ; and being stroke 
he sayeth that thervppon he putt him backe and stroke at him 
with his clubb and did hitt him about the arm ; and then 
Oxley, as he taketh it, did cry out "Clubbs"; and thervppon 
he did goe in and tell Mr Rone of what was done, and then 
Mr Rone went out with his short clubb and torch, and then at 
the end of there rayles one did darte a clubb in his face 
whervppon he followed that party e downe towards St Johns 
gates, and presently returned backe agayne, and at his return he 
did see a great number of St Johns to yssewe out the gates 
with longe clubbs, whervppon Mr Rone did goe to the 
President then beinge there present, and did intreate him to 
perswade with those that came out that they would return lest 
there were some greater misorder. 

The Examination of St Jhons Wittnesses. 

1. Tho. Wilkinson Trinitatis, Juratiis. He being in Copers 
one Tuysdye or Wendesdye before the playes, Mr Sherrocke 
Johis, he did aske him how the ladds of St Johns should be 
vsed ; he tould him," Well"; for the vicemaster for the master 
and senors [commanded], that all should be well vsed, [and 
especially St Johns men] ; to whom he answered : " It makes 
noe matter ; our ladds have provided them [great] long clubbs." 
This was spoken in Halliwell's the barbers shopp, there then 
being others by and present that he nowe knoweth not the 
names. 

Th. Wilkinson. 

2. Sir Cotton Trinitatis, Juratvs. He sayeth that either 
in his owne chamber or going to his chamber Brooks coming 
to borrow a stagekeeper's suyte about St John's bottrye at 



16 RECORD OF VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT. 

Twelfe tyde last past [herd] them say that your Colledge will 
keepe out ours from coming to your comedye; if they doe there 
wilbe as great a doe or stirre as ever was in the University. 

Robert Cotton. 

3. Georgius Archer examined. He sayeth that he stood 
leanyng agaynst the wall, and Sir Osborne stood by him at 
the corner of the [wall by ye] post of Trynyte College next 
St Johannis; and a stagekeeper in a reddish coulered suyte did 
come and beet a [light] lynke over his Sir Osborne's heade, 
whervppon the said Sir Osborne did depart. 

George Archer. 

4. Francis Vicars. Sayeth that he did see a stagekeeper 
[which was Mr Coote of Trynyte] the first night in a whyte 
fryse jerkin come out with a dager and sworde drawne ; and, 
after Mr ViceChancelor was gone in to Trynitye College, and 
howlding the same vpp to those of St Johnes yt stoode with 
clubbs, sayeing this or the like in effect: "Where.be these 
rogish cowards or Jonians ; yf there be any of you yt dares 
aunswer me come forth"; to whom Gryff Divall aunswered : 
" Ther is them yt dare aunswer you." This was about 6 of 
the clock. 

Frances Vickears. 

5. Robert Slegg. Deposeth that Sir Oxley stood peaceably 
close to the post of Trynitye next to St John's gate, and a 
stagekeeper with his clubb did easely putt of the said Sir Oxley 
of St John's Colledge. Yet he yelded not, but very littell ; 
then the stagekeeper lynked him, whervppon the said Sir 
Oxley [stered not, but] did mutter and talk to the stagekeepers. 
Whervppon 2 or 3 of the stagekeepers did laye at him with 
linkes, and then he did geve backe ; and watching the tyme did 
snach a torch from a stagekeeper, and with it he did strike and 
lay about at the stagekeepers, but, other helpe coming, divers 
stagekeepers did follow after Sir Oxley, and did beate 1 him 
awaye ; whervppon some Schollers did crye out for Clubbs, and 
not long after ther wer manye long clubbs, and peices of yron 

1 The Registrary has written " peate." 



WITNESSES FOR S. JOHN'S COLLEGE. 17 

and colerakes brought in to the streete. He sayeth that ther 
vver stones throwne out the garden by some yt stood [above] the 
battel ment presently vppon the cominge out of Clubbs out the 
Colledge ; and about 7 of the clock he did see stones throwne 
of the Towre of Trynitye, and he sayeth he hath been sent for 
to Mr Hall's chamber, and ther hath confessed, and tould him 
as much as here he hath deposed. 

By me Robert Slegge. 

6. Willyam Twelves sayeth that he was in the street when 
as Mr Coote came out the colledge to the ende of Trinitye 
walk 1 before the Sone 2 gate [agaynst the church gate of 
Alhallows], houlding his dagger by the poynte, did saye " Wher 
be these Jonians ? Is ther none of the rougues will answer a 
man ? Zounds I will throwe my dagger amongst them," 
Mr ViceChancellor then being nere "f"St Johnsj- Colledge gate, 
but he beleiveth that fhe didf 3 not know yt Mr Vicechancellor 
was ther, for that after, when Mr Coote sawe Mr Vicechancellor 
come vpp towards Trynitye College, he Mr Coote did put the 
dager vnder his arme to hyde it. 

William Twelles. 

7. Nicholas Carr, Johis. He sayeth that his brother of 
Trynitye did bid him one Tuysdaye night, before the comedye, 
that he should not come at the comedye, for the stagekeepers 
wer Masters of Arts and none but Masters of Arts would be 
suffered to come in. 

Nicholas Carre. 

8. Sir Dawson sayeth that Mr Wilkinson [about dinner 
tyme on Wednesdaye] did wishe him to tell Sir Couper : " I 
would wish them that be Sir Couper's frends to tell Sir Couper 
that 4 yf he doe come to Trynitye Colledge -f- it. were well -J- 5 

1 The walk or entry between parallel walls which led from the street to the 
great gate. 

2 The Sun Inn in Trinity Street, opposite to Trinity College. 

3 The words "being — not" are at the bottom of a page which is much 
damaged; and they are therefore somewhat uncertain. 

4 After " that " the MS. adds : "he should not come to Trynitye Colledge if 
he did." 

5 The sense requires the addition of some such words as these. 

C. A. S. Octavo Series. No. XLIII. 2 



18 RECORD OF VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT. 

that he [wer brought in by] 1 some Trends, for in regarde of some 
private quarell he did feare otherwyse he would be abvsed." 
He sayeth that he did see Mr Layfield the first night putt down 
a 2 or 3 stayrs at the hall door, and not suffered to enter. 

Robert Dawsonn. 

9. Sir Hutton sayeth that Mr Wilkinson did on the 
commencement daye wish him to bid Sir Couper not to come 
at the Comedyes except he were brought by some of his frends, 
for he feared in regarde of some wronge that he Couper had 
offered to some of Trynitye Colledge he would have some [hard 
measure] offered him ther, which words he verely beleiveth 
Mr Wilkinson did -f*vtter-f- out of his love he bare vnto 

Sir Couper. 

Arthure Huttonn. 

10. Mr Wilkinson sayeth that Sir Dawson and Sir Hutton 
dyninge with him one the commencement daye, for yt he had 
heard that the said Sir Couper had wronged some of those he 
did thinke should be stagekeepers, he intreated them to tell 
Mr Couper yt for the love he bare vnto him he would wish him 
forbeare cominge there, for fere of beinge wronged. 

Th. Wilkinson. 

11. Sir Augur sayeth that he was by [at ye corner of ye 
wall by Trynitye Colledge post next St Johns] when as Sir 
Elborrogh was stricken, which was a stagekeeper with his clubb 
did putt him of, but, because the presse was soe greate, he could 
not goe backe suddenly, whervppon the stagekeeper, who was 
in a carsey suyte, did smyte with a lyte lynke over Sir Elsborrogh 
his heade, and then Sir Elborrogh houlding vp his arm to hould 
of ye torch dropping, that stagekeeper did hitt him a good 
blowe with his clubb vpon his arme, and then Sir Oxly stept 
forward and helped to rescue Sir Elborrogh, then other stage- 
keepers came to rescue that stagekeeper, and one of them 
having a lyncke in his hande, Sir Oxley did snache it awaye ; 

1 The Registrary had first written "came with some friends." He then 
drew his pen through " came," and wrote above the line " wer brought in by." 
I have adopted this second reading, and erased the word " with." 



WITNESSES FOR S. JOHN'S COLLEGE. 19 

but, presently, after yt the sayd Sir Elborough was strook with 
the clubb, ther was swords drawne by the stagekeepers, but sawe 
noe man stroke with them ; he sayeth that the stagekeepers 
were more violent with those on Saynt John's syde then those of 
the other, [for they putt these by easely, the others they did 
lyncke]. He sayeth that presently after yt Sir Oxly had 
stroke one blow with the torch, he saw Sir Vaughan there with 
a clubb or staffe, [and others ; Sir Osborne had a long clubb]. 
He sayeth that he did not see Sir Elborough give the stage- 
keeper an occasion to misvse him. 

Nicholas Augar. 

St Johns: Wittnesses. 

12. Sir Mason was lynked there [the seconde night], after 
he was kyndly had into the Colledge by one Sir Chappell 1 , by a 
stagekeeper yt wore a green suyte with puffes ; and another in 
a redd suyte [did putt him backe and lynke him from the Hall 
Dour to the gate]. He sayeth that one Sir Aldred did weare 
the green suyte the night before with whyte lined puffs ; and 
he was warned [by Mr Gouldingham] at two of the clock the 2 
Daye' 2 . not to presume to [tarrye] within the gates, for yf he did 
it should be worse for him 3 . 

Robt. Mason. 

12a. Sir Osburne sayeth that a stagekeeper in a redd suyte 
and a steel capp did knock him down 4 . 

13. Agnes Barnes sayeth that the first night of the playes 
at Trynitye Colledge in the eveninge, there being certayue 
neighbours of John Frysbyes Appothocarye standing vppon the 
said Frysbyes seat 5 , she harde the wyfe of the said John Frysby 
tell the said neighbours that there were Schollers of Trynite 

1 The Registrary originally wrote : "had into the Colledge by one Chappell." 
He then drew his pen through the words "by one Chappell"; and wrote above 
the line "and at the Hall Dour one Sir Chappell would have been in his blowd." 

2 After "Daye," the Registrary has written above the line: " and told him he 
should not see the cornedye." 

3 " be worse for him " is altered in the text into " repent it." 

4 This evidence is not numbered in the MS. nor signed. 

5 The scrawl interpreted "seat" may represent "selle," or " sille " = sill, 

2—2 



20 RECORD OF VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT. 

Colledge did report in her shopp that ther was a loade and 
a halfe of stones layed vppon the topp of Trynitye Colledge 
Towre to throwe down. 

Agnes Barnes 1 . 

14. Thomas Whaleye juratus deponit that within these 
2 or 3 dyes past he did here one Sir Wheley Johannis tell this 
Deponent that he was called in question, for that some 
Schollers of Trynite colledge tould him three weeks past that 
yf the Sir Coupers Johannis went to Trynitye Colledge comedyes 
they should be beaten, because they were noted to have 
wronged Trynitye Colledge men, or words to yt effect. 

Thomas Whaleye. 

15. Robert Binns juratus deponit that the first night he 
did see Sir Nevill S. S. Trinitatis, as he beleiveth, for of his 
certyn knowledge he sayeth he canot depose, lynke one 
Sir Dawson Johannis in Trynitye Colledge courte ; but wher- 
fore he knoweth not. 

Robert Bynnes. 

16. George Feme Trinitatis deposeth that he did heere 
Sir Binn tell him this examinant that Sir Dawson Johannis 
was lynked the fyrst night out the Colledge court by one 
stagekeeper that he Binns beleived was Sir Nevill senior, who 
was in fa j- dark coulered horsmans coat and a hedpeece. 

George Ferae. 

17. I. Wood Chr d he sayeth he was at Trynitye gates the 
night before the fyrst comedye began and befor St John's men 
came out with clubbs, and he sayeth that he stoode vnder 
Trynitye Colledge garden wall which is Mr Tompsons, and 
was smitten with a stone which came from Trynitye Colledge 
ward, but from what parte he doth not know ; he also sayeth 
one Cally of Christ's Colledge was also smytten with a stone, 
but knoweth not from what place of Trynitye Colledge it came. 

Isacke Wood. 

18. Jeffry Allott sayeth the fyrst night of the Comedyes 
he was going after his master who went to the Comedye ; and, 

1 Signed by the Registrary to her mark, a vertical line between the two words. 



WITNESSES FOR S. JOHN'S COLLEGE. 21 

being mydwaye vpp in Trynitye Colledge walke, a stagekeeper 
miscalled him, and strock at him with a clubb, and beet him 
backe, and after yt standing by agynst Trynitye Chappell by 
Allhallows church wall, he had a great bricke batt which f hef 
did bring into the Court, f This bricke batt f was thrown out 
Trynitye Garden, and did hitt him vpon the shoulder. He also 
did se manye stones thrown down from Trynitye Colledge 
Towre. This stone and the other were throwne after yt 
Mr Vicechancellor was gone in. He sayeth Sir Oxley and 
Sir Elborough had noe weapons when they wer smitten by 
stagekeepers. 

Jefferye Allott sayeth that he did see 2 or 3 stones thrown 
[out the garden] before he saw any clubbs come out St Johns 
Colledge, and himself was smitten with the stone before he saw 
any Clubbs come out or called for; it was presently after yt his 
master was gone into ye comedye. 

Jefry Allott 1 . 

19. Mr Dr Heme he sayeth that about five of the clock 
the fyrst night Sir Elborough, [as he taketh his name to be], did 
come vnto him, and shewe him a littell strooke which bled 
vppon the backe of his hands, which he tould him the stage- 
keepers gave him, and this examinant tould him that yf he 
would shew him the partyc that had hurt him he should have 
amenns made him ; but then he, and one Sir Oxley who was 
also by, wer very vnrulye, and pressed forward agaynst the 
stagekeepers, and would not by any good perswasion that he 
could use give back ; whervppon he this examinant willed the 
stagekeepers to give back even to the Colledge gates; and then 
presently the Clubbmen in great number followed and pressed 
after, and then presently one Mr Johnson, President of 
St Johns, did come to putt them back, and did box some, and 
perswade others to goe backe, but they would in noe weas 
be pers waded, whervppon he this examinant, seeing stones 
throwen out Mr Tompson's garden, did bid them to leave 
throwing, which they presently did. The stones were thrown 
after that the Clubbmen came, and would not suffer the stage- 
keepers to keepe the walke, and cryed out " Clubbs," " Clubbs," 
1 Signed by the Registrary. 



22 RECORD OF VICE-CHANCELLOR^ COURT. 

and "Brake downe there gates"; and the stones were thrown 
only to the corner of the walke to keepe the clubbmen off 
the walke. 

Sam. Heron. 

20. John Symonds Johannis he sayeth that, because it was 
reported abroade that St Johannis men might goe peacably 
into Trynitye Colledge Comedyes, he went thither to see 
whether he might goe in or not, and standinge ther he did see 
Sir Elborogh, who he sayeth stood quietlye there, lynckt by a 
stagekeeper, and at the tyme that Sir Oxley was persewed by 
three or four stagekeepers, he, standinge in Allhalowes Church 
yard, did take vpp a stone and threw after the stagekeepers, 
which lyted between two of fthemf; which he did to defend 
Sir Oxley, who [himself] was being persewed by the stage- 
keepers; he sayeth that stone did lyte agaynst Trynitye Garden 
wall, and he threw noe more but that, and but for that he 
beleiveth Sir Oxley had been felled, for vppon that they 
left persewing Sir Oxley and came into the churchyarde 
to follow this deponent. He saw Jackson thrust at the wall 
with a clubb. 

John Simonds. 

21. Sir Whaley juratus deponit that Sir Bickly Petri and 
he, being together at the Sune by the fyer, about a fortnight 
before the Comedye, a Scholler of Trynetye Colledge, whom he 
knoweth not 1 , being ther, he did hear the sayd Scholer saye 
that yf the Sir Coupers came to Trynetye Colledge Comedyes 
he would not be in ther cases for c 11 , they would be soe beaten 
they would be neere spoyled, and " You St John's men look to 
your selves, for we are provided thre score stronge for you." 

Sir Bickly sayeth that Winter of Trinitye Colledg • said 
before the comedyes wer at the Sone that it wer best for 
Sir Couper of St Johns to keep out the Comedyes. 

William Whaly. 

22. Johnes Symonds virtute juramenti deponit that he 
beinge at Lawsons shopp one Mondye after the Comedys, as he 

1 A marginal note in the hand of the Registrary records: This scholler 
is thought Winter. 



WITNESSES FOR S. JOHN'S COLLEGE. 23 

remembreth, he did here Jarmin Warde tell this deponent yt 
his sone Dan yell Boyse was stagekeeper at Trynitye College 
Comedy es 1 . 

23. Georgius Etherington juratas sayeth that at the 
Barber Lawson's shopp he heard Warde confess that he might 
have had xl s to be stagekeeper at Trynitye College, and he 
refused to be stagekeeper because he was since this admitted a 
St John's man. 

George Etherington. 

24. Otbey John's he sayeth he sawe Sir Osborne John's 
lynked without Trynitye College gates, and did see a stage- 
keeper, but now he remembreth not what suyte he wore, synge 
him with a lyted 2 torch one his hatt, and it went out with the 
stroke ; and then he did see him smyte him agayne with lynk 
agayne lyted 2 , and his clubb, soe violently that Sir Osborne 
[reled agaynst the wall] 3 . This was before the seconde night 
of the plays. 

Tristram Otbye. 

25. William Lawson juratus fdeponitf that vppon Wed- 
nesdye or Thursdye last past Jarmin Warde, being at his shopp, 
and Symonds and Etherington John's being ther, the said 
Warde did saye that he was offered xl s to be stagekeeper at 
Trynitye Colledge, but otherwyse he canott depose. 

William Lawsone. 

26. Sir Heath sayeth he wore both nights a whitish cotton 

suyte with redd gards. The first night a hatt, the second a 

helmet. 

Tho. Heath. 

27. Sir Aldred both nights wore one suyte, viz. : a greene 
buckron cutt vpon whyte, and a blew capp. 

Ben. Alured. 

28. Jarmin Warde sayeth that beinge at the barber's shopp 
Lawson he sayed thus and noe otherwyse : " I would not have 

1 This evidence is not signed. 

2 MS., lyte. 

3 In place of these words the Registrary had written " fell to the ground." 



24 RECORD OF VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT. 

beine a stagekeeper for xl s and xl to"; but otherwyse lie 
denyeth. 

Jarmin Warde 1 . 

29. Edward Goodin juratus sayeth he sawe stoones tbrowen 
from both syds ; viz., from Trynitye garden and from St John's 
syds ; but knovveth none of there names, but knoweth some of 
them by sight. He sawe also, when the battellments were 
putt downe, Myton was one, and divers schollers [with 
clubbs] ; he sawe Mr Rone smyte Purkis, and sayeth that he 
sawe him have a long clubb in his hande when he was smyten, 
or a very lettell before. There were manye schollers and others 
yt threw stones out the garden, but remembreth not he sawe 
any stones thrown [out from the garden or from Trynitye 
College tower] till the clubbs came out. 

Ed. Goodwin. 

30. George Heath sawe Myton and the porter of St Johns 
with clubbes, and he did see Jackson the toule gatherer's sonne 
[with a clubb, and fyte with it, and] throwe downe some part 
of the walls ; and one scholler of St John's whome the Porter 
saw, the Porter also did helpe putt downe some of ye walles ; 
the scholler did most of ye harme to ye walles ; he is about the 
hayt of the Porter without a gowne. 

Sig. Georgii Heath 1 . 

31. Jana Hall jurata. I heard 2 schollers passing by in 
the street say these or such words: " Heer wilbe ould scuffling 
at this end of the towne within these three or foure nights ; 
for we heare that ther ar stones prepared to fling from the 
towers": and another made awnswer that: "Those that they 
should hitt they would be paid home." 

She sath that she knoweth none of the said schollers. 

Signed, Jane Hall 1 . 

32. Johannes Muncaster deposeth that before xptmas last 
past (the tyme he cannot otherwyse remember), he did see a 
great heape of stones lye one the backe syde of Trynitye College 
in Garrett Ostell; which heape of stones this deponent missinge 

1 Signed by the Registrary to a mark. 



WITNESSES FOR S. JOHN'S COLLEGE. 25 

about a fourtenight agoe, he did aske one Winge, paver at 
Trinitye Colledge, what was become of the said heape of stones; 
who then tould this deponent yt they wer carryed vnto Kings 
College, to be ther paved out, and he sayeth he hath heard sye 
that one Wilkin 1 a carter carryed them. 

Sig. Johis Muncaster 2 . 

32a. Johes Bowles Joyner famulus Bettson. He was 
before Trinitye College gate on the first night of the comedye, 
and did see before Mr Vicechancellor came stones thrown down 
both from the tower and chappell. He was there before the 
clubbs came out, and sayeth that he did not see any stones 
thrown [from the tower, chappell, or garden], before that the 
clubbs came out St John's' [untill] that the clubbmen had 
beeten the stagekeepers into Trinitye gates ; and sayeth that 
the partyes that were in the garden did looke over the garden 
wall, and throwe downe 4 ; and then the clubbmen strook 
at them, and divers threw stones over into the garden at them; 
and others, Myton with -f*a-f- longe clubb, did throwe downe 
the battellments at the places where those in the garden did 
throwe down stones ; and after they were down Myton and 
Scholes, and others, did putt down the rest of the battlements. 
He at the first beginning of them throwinge, did see 
Mr Tompson's man looke over the wall. Symonds was by him. 

John Bowles. 

32b. John Symonds, servant to King's College buttler. 
He sayeth yt Bowles was ther before he came ; he came iust 
when as the clubbs came out St John's, and did see when as 
the stagekeepers were beaten into the college gates with longe 
clubbs, and one Higle with a sworde came out, and cut one 
with a longe clubb without cloke or gowne, and then Mr Rone 
was felled by a clubbman, and then the stagekeepers durst noe 

1 The Registrary has drawn his pen through " one Wilkin." 
- Signed by the Registrary to a mark. 

3 After " St John's " the Registrary originally wrote, and then crossed out : 
"he also sayeth that the flinging of the stones out the garden began presently 
after." 

4 After " throwe downe " the MS. reads " and the stones thrown." 



26 RECORD OF VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT. 

more come out the gates, but divers continued flynging of 
stones out the garden, or from the topp of the tower. He saw 
some in black throwe down stones out the garden, and, as they 
looked over, St John's men with clubbs were nere to slye them. 
He sawe halfe a dosen of persons one after an other looking 
over the walls. 

John Simonds. 

33. Mr Willyams. Sayeth about 5 of the clock [the 2 
night] he gott in 1 to the Colledge gates, but could not gett in, 
because one tould him and the other, that Mr Gouldingham 
had the key about him, and none could gett in; but 
Mr Gouldingham coming into the gatehouse, he denyed he had 
noe key ; whervppon [seeing they could not there], he went 
about to Caius College gate' 2 , and ther were lett in, and after yt 
they wer in, one who he taketh it was Mr Stanopp, for soe 
he was called, did saye and swere that he did wonder that 
any St John's Colledge man would be soe impudent to come 
in, and did threton that they should not come in ; whervppon 
he tould him he was a Master of Arts, and would not goe out ; 
then he agayne swore that if he was a Master of Arts, where 
was his hood and habitt. Mr Whitgrave came to them and 
said he is a Master of Arts, and I know it ; and then 
Mr Stanopp sayd he would search him for swords ; for last 
night all St John's Masters of Arts had swords about them. 

John Williams. 

34. Mr Burnell sayeth that he was remanded from the 
fore gate to Keys College gate, and from there agayne they 
were putt by ; and Mr Hoult and Mr Carill wer putt by with 
clubbs when as they offered to enter; [that Mr Carell with 
much adoe got in] ; that at last they gott into the colledge, 
[whervppon Mr Hoult and this deponent came to the fore 
gate]. After they had attended about an hower, and when he 
gott in with much adoe, he did gett into the hall ; and 

1 That is, Williams got into the "entry" or "walk," as it is called, which 
led up to the gate between high walls. He got through the crowd as far as the 
gate, but could not get into the College. 

2 The gate opposite Gonville and Caius College, now called The Queen's 
Gate. 



WITNESSES FOR S. JOHN'S COLLEGE. 27 

after a whyle ther got a place ; he also sayeth that he did 
observe they did wholy include this unkind nesse to St John's 
men. He went into the colledge about 5. 

Laur. Burnell. 

35. Mr Grace. He examined sayeth that the second night 

when as a stagekeeper [whom he thinketh to be Mr Stanopp] 

did take him in, he did lead him by the hand, and syed yf it 

were fnotf you you should not come in; and this was at Caius 

Coll. back gate. 

John Grace. 

36. Mr Metcalfe sayeth fthat-f* the first night he did 
see a stagekeeper in a rogg 1 gowne and a head peece put 
Mr Layfield downe two or 3 stayers at the hall door. 

Robert Metcalfe. 

37. Mr Layfeild sayeth that the first night he went to the 
Comedye, and at the Hall door above the stayers, [and being 
below the stagekeeper], he was putt by by a stagekeeper in a 
rugg gowne and a Steele cap [whom they saye was a Master of 
Arts and fellow] down the stayers, and not sufered to enter; 
and afterwards talking with a stagekeeper, and telling 2 him he 
was a Master of Arts, and had been sometyme of yt college, 
and he did invite him he might goe in, he asked him of what 
College he was; when he tould him of St Johns. Whervppon, 
he said to him [" What the devell doe you here] ; what reason 
have you, being of St Johns, to offer to come in ?" [and so did 
lynk him, and thrust him down. That] he did also see 
Sir Dawson then lynked out the College. 

Thomas Layfeild. 

38. Pilgrim sayeth that he did see Bayley Johannis the 
second night, when he came out of the colledge, much lynckt 
one his hatt and gowne ; he saw Sir Osborne lynked ; and did 
see a stagekeeper smyte him with a clubb, and made him rele 
agaynst the wall ; but what apparell he wore he doeth not 
know. 

Gualther Pylgrime. 

1 On a previous page this word is written " rugg." See also No. 37. 

2 MS., tould. 



28 RECORD OF VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT. 

39. Copley sayeth the 2 night he did see Bayley Johannis 

come out Mr Hall's chamber, and, being gone down, he heard 

a stagekeeper saye: "Yonder is Jonians." "Where be they?" 

said the other, and followed after him; who made hast towards 

the gates, but they overtooke him, and did lynke him. One 

of the stagekeepers was in a whyte suyte with a Steele capp, 

the other in a reddish suyte. 

Godfridus Copley. 

40. Sir Vaughan non juratus sayeth that he was verye 
sore hurt from the topp of the tower by a sworde throwen 
thence as he verily beleiveth. It was halfe an hower after yt 
Mr Vice Chancellor was gone in. Edward Good he sayeth can 
tell some of there names 1 . 

41. Gryffin Divall sayeth that Mr Coote, when as Dr 
Clayton was at Trynitye College gate, and Mr Vice Chancellor 
about St John's gate, Mr Coote then being in the open street, 
at the corner of the wall by Trynitye College great post next 
St John's, stood having a dagger at his back and a clubb [or 
cuggell] in his hande, did sye : "Where be these Jonians?" 
repeatinge it once or twyse; "Is there ever a Jonian will answer 
me tomorrow?" to whom this deponent syed, "Yes there is 
xx schollers in St John's that dare answer you ; but this is 
noe tyme to challenge, when others are troubled to make 
peace"; but he knoweth not whither he did know that Mr 
Vice Chancellor was soe nigh ; and he sayeth that Mr Coote did 
threaten him this examinant sayinge he would know him. 

Gri. Dyuall. 

42. Sir Marchant sayeth that when as Sir Elborough was 
lynckt by the stagekeeper, Sir Elborough standinge at the end 
of the rayle, who going back but [presently after] the said Sir 
Oxley who was [come] near to him being also lynkt would not 
styrre, whervppon divers stagekeepers did come and lynke 
them [he 2 thinketh yf yt Oxley had gone backe ther had bene 

1 This evidence is not signed. 

2 The general sense may be explained as follows : Marchant, being afraid if 
that [i.e. in case that] Oxley had given way to the stagekeeper there [at the end 
of the rayle], the Johnians generally would be set on by the stagekeepers, hit 



WITNESSES FOR S. JOHN'S COLLEGE. 29 

no stirre], and this deponent made backe, and ran avvaye, and 
before he could sett eye att them agayne Sir Oxley with a 
torch was laying about at the stagekeeper ; but he was pursued 
by stagekeepers to St Johns Rayles [and beat with clubbs one 
the head 3 or 4 tymes], and after yt he was hiden, he sawe 
Sir Elborough talking with Dr Heme there, but knoweth not 
wherabouts, neither did he see any swords drawn before that 
tyme, nor noe clubbs. He perceved noe weepon about Sir 
Elborough then. 

Sir Marchand. 

43. Cutler Johannis sayeth he did stand neer to Trynitye 
College walke, and neere to the chanell befor Trynitye College 
walk he did see a stagekeeper with his clubb thrust the said 
Sir Oxley [on the brest] oft, and he did not stirr ; whervppon 
he did lyncke him, and other stagekeepers seeing he Sir Oxley 
would not sterr, did come and lynke him ; he holding out his 
hand did catche a torch from a stagekeeper and brake it, and 
throw it awaye, and then three or 4 stagekeepers stept to him, 
and lynked him, and persewed him, smytyng him one the head 
and bodye with ther clubbs 2 or 3 yards within St Johannis 
College rayles. 

Ger. Cutler. 

44. Fowler sayeth he did see Sir Oxley stand nere the 
chanell at the ende of the walk coming from Trynitye gates, 
and a stagekeeper did come to him and putt him backe with 
his club, but he only leaned back, and did not stirr, whervppon 
agayne that stagekeeper and other stagekeepers did lynke, and 
another stagekeeper coming to them did with a torch strike, 
et quod vtique deposuit vt Buttler. 

Richard Fowler. 

45. Hilton Christ's he sayeth that the first night about 
6 or 7 of the clock, when all the stagekeepers were gone in, 

out at them, but did not throw any stone. Marchant then ran away. The 
Trinity men were no doubt anxious to prove that the Johnians began the 
stone-throwing, and one Johnian at all events confesses to throwing a stone 
very early. See Dep. 20 (p. 22). 



30 RECORD OF VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT. 

he did see Sir Vaughan hurt with a stone of the Tower, and 
he saw 3 or 4 ther which threw stones down. 

Samuell Hilton. 

46. Smyth juratus deponit for Sir Vaughan vt supra 
deposuit Hilton. Sayeth he verely believeth the stone came 
from the tower ; and it was when all the stagekeepers was 
gone in att the gates ; and. for the matter of Sir Osborne, he 
sayeth that he did see a stagekeeper carye him to Trynitye 
College gate, and, when as he came at the gates, an other 
brought him back and lyncked him, and did with his club and 
lyncke strike him one the head, and settled him [agaynst the 
wall]. He sayeth the stagekeeper was in a reddish suyte and 
a headpeece one his heade. 

William Smith. 

47. Nathaniel Pagett sayeth that he sawe Sir Pratt Johns 
felled with a stone after the clubbs came out 1 . 

48. Mr Furtho juratus sayeth that there be 2 wayes into 
the garden, and that he kepp his owne key, and neither pupill 
or any other had it [nor could goe into garden or therby] ; 
and he hath inquired for his owne pupills, and can [not] learn 
yt any of them wer there those nights. Mr Tompson hath an 
other key, and yf any passage were into the garden, by any 
stonefiyuers or others, then it was by Mr Tompsons door. 

Tho. Fortho. 

49. Nicholas Jackson juratus deponit that he beinge come 
out of St Johns seller from supper there with a scholler 
bachelor yt attends in the buttry ; and ffordam did supp with 
him ; and having suppt, and coming out to the gates, he did 
see divers schollers at the gates with clubbs, and noebodye 
badd him take a clubb. He sawe a [long] clubb lyinge on the 
grounde at St Johns Rayles, and took it vpp, and went with 
the clubb out to Trinitye walk, but before he took vpp the 

1 In the MS. Paget's deposition, which is unsigned, is succeeded by the 
following words, all in the Registrar's hand: "Sir Symonds stood at there 
owne Rayles at the tyme Wilbey M r Tompson's pupill. M r Waterhowse Sen 1 '." 
Wilbey's evidence is given below, No. 51. 



WITNESSES FOR S. JOHN'S COLLEGE. 31 

clubb he was stricken by Allhallows wall with a [stagekeeper] 
in whyte harnesse. Edward Rutisse was by Claxton's dore 
with a longe clubbe, when as a stagekeeper did with a naked 
sword pursewe vpp towards Cooper's, and ther hit him, and he 
sayeth that Myton 1 had a long clubb. Ther were divers 
scholers ther with longe clubbs whoe he knoweth by sight but 
fnot byf name. A scholler of St Johns, as he thinketh, was 
the fyrst that began to throwe down the walls ; for yt he was 
smyten with a stone of the wall, and his head broken, and 
thervppon he begane the throwinge of stones of the college 
wall ; he did assaye to putt down the wall but could not, but 
Myton and divers other schollers did throwe downe the walls. 

Nicho. Jackson 2 . 

50. Jo. Kinge deposeth that on 2 or* three dayes after 
that the comedy es at Trynitye Colledge were past, he was sent 
for vnto Mr Kemp's chamber at Trinitye College, and being 
come thither Mr Kempe did shutt his dore to, [and then 
shrewfd"flye] examined this examinant whither yt he came at 
the sterr 3 before ther gates at the Comedyes, and who he knew 
there, and such like questions, and Mr Kempe tould him he 
would give him an angell in silver or gould ; but strove more 
to tell 4 whoe were there, and what was done ; but, because he 
knew none, he tould him he could not sye anye thinge. 

Jhon King. 

51. Mattheus Wilbey pupillus Mri Tompson. He sayeth 
that he was in his Tutor's chamber that night, when as the 
tumult at Trynitye gates [was], and did see that Freeman 
Mr Tompson's man was in the garden, but what he did there 
he knoweth not. He himself was not in the garden yt night, 
neither did he handle one stone, nor knowe any one yt had a 
stone there, or went into the garden ; and he sayeth that he 
doeth not know of any stones that were provided in the garden, 

1 The Registrary has added the following marginal note: " Purcas his 
daughter would marry Myton." 

2 Signed by the Registrary to his mark. 

3 That is : was present at the disturbance. 

4 The object of his questions was to induce the witness to tell, etc. 



32 RECORD OF VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT. 

and verely believeth there was noe provision of stones there 
made. 

Matthew Wilby. 

52. Dominus Couper sayeth that Sir Waide Trinitye 
came to him to Archer's 1 , and cryed to him, and confessed he 
had done him wronge in saying that he should confesse that 
he Sir Couper had stricken a stagekeeper [who was in red with 
a sworde], and withall intreeted him to tell him what he should 
saye, for he was sent for to [Mr Vice Chancellor to confess 2 his 
waes or be whipt or expelled 3 ], and he knew not what to saye 
to Mr Vice Chancellor for he thought he should be set. There 
was Sir Vaughan had a clubb ther as he thinketh. Sir Sishton 
had a barre of yron which Burton as he did heare had of him. 

Sir Tompson. • 

Sir Rowles with a clubb with crosse barr. 

He had his clubb ther, but [whyle] ther stryvinge was he 
came not neere then [by xl u foote], nither did he vse it, but 
took it vpp [besyde the gates] and gave it to Sir Ellice of 
St Johns. He was not neere Mr Vice Chancellor when he was 
there. Had a knocke or blowe with a stone on the brest. 

Henry Cooper. 

53. Nathaniel Pagett Caii (juratus) sayeth that he stoode 
neere vnto the Sunne gates, when as Sir Pratt Johannis [who 
stoode by him] was strycken with a stone in the forehead, as 
he believeth out the garden. It was after the clubbs came 
out, for the clubbs were come out before he came there. 

Nathaniel Paget. 

54. Sir Tompson sayeth he was felled with a stone which 
was thrown out the garden as he thinketh ; he confesseth that 
he had a clubb at the gates, when as Mr Vice Chancellor came 
out, but went in when he came to the gates. 

20. Feb. 1610. 

55. Dominus Joh. Elburrow juratus et examinatus. Saith 
that he saw a sword drawne [by a stagekeeper] before any clubbs 

1 At the Crown Inn. 3 MS., confe. 3 MS., expel. 



WITNESSES FOR S. JOHN'S COLLEGE. 33 

came forth, presently vpon the linking of Sir Oxly. Saith also 
that he was wounded on his arme and hand by one of the 
stagekeepers with a naked sword. That stagekeeper that 
smote him wore a red coate with white lace much after the 
forme of a horsman's coate, with a scarfe before his face. 

John Elborowe. 

56. Dominus Robt. Oxly jurat us et examinatus. Saith that 
he was at the first [easily] putt by, as he thinketh, by Mr Diliker, 
and gave back ; wherwpon Mr Diliker went awaye. Presently 
[ther] came another stagekeeper, and linkt him sore, striking 
him with the flame of his linke vpon his hand ; and stroke at 
his face, which lighted on his brest. This stagekeeper was in a 
white suyte almost covered with redd lace. Vpon this ther 
came 3 or 4 more stagekeepers vpon him, wherof one gave him 
a blow over the face with a clubb, which made his face black 
and blue divers dayes after. 

Then the said Sir Oxly confeseth that he caught a torch from 
one of the stagekeepers, striking with it, and broke the same 
into 2 peices, and threw it among the stagekeepers. 

The said Robt Oxly the same night he came into the Hf all*f*, 
all things being quiet, between the 4th and 5th Act, and ther 
within the skreen the same stagekeeper before described came 
vnto him againe, and lookt vpon f him, and then -f* went back 
and sfcrock him ouer the shoulder with a clubb, and bad him 
begon, who awnswering " I am gone," and so went forth, the 
stagekeeper following [and linking] him to the hall dore. At 
the same time one Webster standing by and seing Sir Oxly 
linkt out said [vnto Sir Oxly the next day] that he saw him 
linkt out, and said that himself was linkt out by the same 
stagekeeper, who said that that stagekeeper's name was 
Sir Heath. 

Rob. Oxley. 

57. John Dody juratus. Saith that he came about 6 of 
the clock and saw divers clubbs abroad, and therupon as also 
perceiving stones to be throwne from Trin. Coll. withdrew 
himself, and so departed. 

the mark of 
John Dody. 

C. A. S. Octavo Series. No. XLIII. 3 



34 RECORD OF VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT. 

58. Leon. Shittleworth juratus. Saith that he being in 
the crowd beneath Trin. Coll. rayles at the same time the 
clubbs began to be called for and running away towards 
St Johns for feare of hurt, a stagekeeper overtaking him stroke 
him, in so much that he fell to the ground ; but who the stage- 
keeper was he knoweth not. 

Leon. Shutlewortli. 

59. John Ekins Johannis juratus. Saith that he [was] 
present when Sir Oxly was persued, and saw some stagekeepers 
following other schollers towards St Johns. Saith that lie saw 
Shittleworth felled to the ground by a [little] stagekeeper 
which was in a russett horsman's coat, and he was felled beneath 
the gate [next Trinity Coll.] that leadeth into Allhallowes 
church yard neer vnto the church wall at the same time the 
clubbs were called for. 

John Ekins. 

The following notes, ivliich evidently belong to this case, are 
written on a half-sheet in which the vouchers for 1590 were 
enclosed. 

Sir Hanger (Augar) sayeth yt ye quarrell began between 
Agar and Sotheby and one Serle and Mr Coote of Trinity 
Colledge ; and Agar (Augar) sayeth he had noe weapon, but 
sayeth Mr Coote and Serle of Trinity College f had f. 

Serle sayeth [he, Floyd, Dorrington and Mr Coote goeing] 
that Agar did toss his gowne vppon his shoulder, and did hitt 
Mr Cooke on his face, and soe Serle came back and did ask 
Ager if he wodd sleaye -f-him -J-, and he sayed noe. 

Serle sayeth that he did strike him, but it was vppon a 
challenge. He sayeth that he and Floyd and Mr Coote being 
together [and coming home agayne] they mett with Sir Hauger 
(Augar) and 3 or 4 others of St John's ; and one of St Johns 
whose name he doth not knowe strook at him to strike vp his 
heeles, and fell in ye kenel himselfe. He sayeth that one of 
Trinity College . . . 1 

1 The sentence is not finished. 







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THE SENTENCE. 



35 



Serle, Floyd, Dorrington, were all with hoods and in clookes 
in ye Towne and that they went out to see a playe as Serle 
sayeth that one Heele Johis hath threatened to box him. 

Mr Turret did not strike as he himself sayeth. 



[THE SENTENCE 1 .] 



Sir Heath suspensus a gradu. 

The bachelors with clubbs 
to be suspended a gradu, and 
or ye wall an 



ech satisfied for ye wall and 
windows. Not bachelors to be 
whipped, and the degrees to 
be not till Mr (Mr Vicechan- 
cellor) lisense. 

Sir Oxleys fault and the 
stagekeepers fait to be respited 
till that they be knowen. 



Drs Tyndale, Duport, Rat- 
clyffe. Dr Richardson Dr 
Branthwait the bachelors and 
schollers to be punished for 
clubbs according to ther de- 
grees. Dr Hill. 

Dr Carey agreeth in the 

punishment but desyreth res- 

pitt of the punishment 

till both parties of both 

colleges maye be knowen. 



The bachellors with longe clubbs to be suspended a gradu. 

[The line ending in a flower seems to indicate that the rest of 
the Court came over to Dr Carey's opinion that punishment ought 
to be respited till both parties of both colleges had, been discovered; 
the line ending in an arrow indicates that Dr Carey assented to 
the opinion of the rest of the judges that " the bachellors with 
longe clubbs " were to have their degrees suspended.] 



1 This Sentence (see opposite page) is written on the back (reversed) of 
p. 9 of the MS. It appears in a different form, with additions, on the next 
page. 



36 RECORD OF VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT. 

[THE SENTENCE (in another form).] 

February 25 1610 1 . 

For the damages of the walls and windows broken to be 
istima/ted by 2 seniors of both Colledges and 2 workmen, and 
to be repaired by the berers of clubbs and throwers of stones. 

Dr s Duport, Richardson, Branthwayte, Carey, Chatterton. 
Dr Ward. 

The stagekeeper in the light carsey his suyte and small 
lace ; the stagekeeper in the red suyte and whyte lace and 
headpeece, and the other that did lincke Sir Oxley and Sir 
Elborough without iust cause, when they be found to be 
suspended. 

The matters of Sir Oxley for the first quarrell and the 
snachinge the torch to be referred to the Master of St Johns. 

The lyncking Sir Dawson by Nevell Senior, the abusinge 
of Mr Layfeild by the stagekeeper in the rugg gown and steel 
capp ; Mr Coote for the challenge to be suspended degree, and 
satisfye the college, and not to be absolved (?) till that he have 
some mediators from St John's; et postea comparuit et suspensus 
a gradu suscepto et suscipiendo (etc.) presente Magistro Coote. 

Mr Stannopp Mr Gouldingham Mr Coote referred to 
the censure of Dr Nevell. The stone casters to be suspended 
of degree yf graduates, yf noe whipped. 



1 


Francis ye Porter a longe clubb. 


My ton 2 


2 


Sir Maurice he confesseth a long 


Jackson 




cudgell. 


Kinge 


3 


Ds Tompson he had a clubb. 


Fordham 


4 


Ds Couper 


Jo Parry 


5 


Sir Rowles confesseth he had it, but 


Ed Purkis 




after the tight. 


Hilton non co' 


6 


Sir Palmer fatetnr. 





1 The first line of these notes runs as follows: " P a 18 d Marke Nitinghall 
juratus famulus I) 8 Newton Procafi." This memorandum has nothing to do 
with the case. 

2 These seven names are written on a corner of the page with a line drawn 
round them. 



THE SENTENCE. 37 

Sir Randell a little clubb. 

Sir Auger a rapier. Sir Symonds to mend 

Sir Vaughan a short stick. the windowes 1 . 

Sir Osborne a clnbb. 
Sir Elborrough a clubb confesseth. 
Sir Oxley a clubb confesseth. 
Brookes. 
Sir Symonds and all suspended a gradu. 
Those with long clubbs to pay for the battelments mending 
and for the windowes there broken that night ; those that bore 
weapons, and bachelors, to be suspended a gradu ; those with 
the weapons there committed to the prison. 
Nicholas Jackson, Porter These to be comitted to prison 
Jo Parry and there to remaine till Saturday 

Fordam X of the clocke, and then to be 

Jarmin Warde broght out to the stage to be made 

Daniell Boyse at the bullring, and therevppon to 

be sett in the stocks with papers 
in text letters with these inscrip- 
tions : 

Nicholas Jackson 
Jo Parry 

Fordam 
Jarmin Warde 
Daniell Boyse 

1 The sentence on Symonds is written below the line which includes the 
above names, and is separated by a vertical line from the list of confessions to 
the left of it. 



3—3 



APPENDIX. 



LIST OF PERSONS MENTIONED IN THE RECORD. 



Aldred, Alured, 



Benj. 



Allott, Allot, Jeffryor Jefferye 

Andrews, ? Edw 

Archer, Geo 

Archer, (Goodwyfe) . . . 

Augar, Hauger, Augur, Agar, N ich. . . . 



Baguly, Bagley, 

Barnes, 
Bartin, Barton, 

Bayley, 
Benns, Benes, 
Bettson, 
Bickly, 



Tho. 



Agnes... 
? Matth. 



Tho 

(Mother) 



Tho. 



Binn, Binns, Bins, Bynnes, Rob. . . 



Bowles, 
Boyse, 

Bran tli wait, 
Branthwayt, 

Brett, 
Brookes, 
Burnell, 
Burt< >n, 

Cally, 

Canterbury, 

Carey, 



Carell, Carill, 
Carr, Carre, 
Carr, Carre, 
Cecill, 
Chappell, 



John 
Daniell, Danyell 

Will 



Rob. . 

Laur. . 
? Edw. 



Deane of 
Valentine 



Edw. 
John 
Nich. 
? Tho. 
Joh. 



Trin. 

Trin. 



Joh. 
Joh. 



Trin. 
Joh. 



Pet. 
Trin. 



Cla. 



Joh. 
Joh. 
Joh. 
Chr. 

Chr. 



Trin. 

Trin. 

Joh. 

Joh. 

Trin. 



Chatterton,Chaderton, Laur Chr. 



Claxton, 
Clayton, Cleyton, 



Rich. 



Joh. 



Matric. 3 July 1606; adm. Scholar 
22 Apr. 1608; Minor Fellow, 1612 

servant 

A.B. 1608, A.M. 1612; stagekeeper 

innkeeper (Crown Inn) 

wife to G. Archer 

A.B. 1608, A.M. 1612 

Matric. 13 Dec. 1608; A.B. 1611, 
A.M. 1615 

maidservant to And. Goodwin 

A.B. 1601, A.M. 1607 ; Tutor to John 
Carre 



A.B. 1608, A.M. 1612 
A.B. 1607, A.M. 1611 
a carpenter 

bookbinder, stepson to Jarniin Ward 
A.B. 1582 ; Emm. A.M. 1586, B.D. 
1593, D.D. 1598 ; Master of Gonv. 
and Cai. 1607-1619 

?A.B. 1611, A.M. 1615 

A.B. 1600, A.M. 1604, D.D. 1624 

A.B. 1613 

see Nevile 

A.B. 1588 ; Joh. A.M. 1592 ; Chr. B.D. 

1599, D.D. 1610. Master of Chr. 

1609-1622 
Matric. 10 Apr. 1609, A.B. 1613 
Mr Bartin's pupil. Matric. 1 2 Apr. 1 606 

A.B. 1597, A.M. 1601, B.D. 1609 
Scholar Apr. 12, 1605 ; A.B. 1607, 

A.M. 1611 ; Minor Fellow 1610, 

Major Fellow 1611 
A.B. 1567, A.M. 1571, B.D. 1578; 

Emm. D.D. 1613; Master of Emm. 

1584-1622 

A.M. 1579, B.D. 1587, D.D. 1592 



40 



APPENDIX. 



Cooper, Coper, Couper, Fra. 



Cooper, 
Cootc, 

Copley, 



Hen. . 
Tho. . 

Godfr. 



Cotton, Rob 

Cutler, Cuttler, Gerard .. 

Dauson, Dawson, Dawsonn, Rob. 
Dilaker, Dillacre, Diliker, Edm. 
Divall, Dyvall, Griffin .. 

Dody, John 

Dorrington, Rich 



Duport, 
Ekin, Ekines, 



Jos. 
John 



Elborogh, Elborow, \ 
Elborrough, Ellbor- 1 
rough, Elborough, V Joh. 
Elborowe, Elburrow, 
Elsborrough, I 

Ellice, Ellis, Lionel 

Etherington, Edrington, Geo. 

Feme, Geo. . 

Floyd, Simon 

Fordam, Fordharn, 

Fortho, Furtho, Tho. . 

Fowler, Rich. . 



Edw. 
John 



Francis, 

Freeman, 

Freisbien, Freisbyen, Goodwyfe 

Fresby, Frysby, John 

Good, Edw 

Goddin, Godwyn, Andr 

Goddin,Goodin, Goodwin, Edw. . . . 
Goldingham, 

Gouldingham, 
Grace, 
Hall, 
Hall, 

Hall, 
Halliwell, 
Heath, Heathe, 

Heath, 
Heme, Heron, 

Higle, 
Hill, 



?Tho 

Jane, Jana. 
Tho 



Geo. 
Sam. 



Sam. 



Joh. 

Joh. 
Trin. 

Joh. 

Trin. 
Joh. 
Joh. 
Trin. 



Trin. 
Jes. 

Joh. 

Joh. 



Joh. 
Joh. 
Trin. 
Trin. 

Trin. 
Joh. 



Trin. 

Joh. 

Trin. 

Joh. 



Trin. 

Trin. 
Trin. 



Trin. 



Matric. 4 July 1605 ; A.B. 1608, 

A.M. 1621, B.D. 1620 
Matric. 13 Dec. 1606; A.B. 1610 
Scholar 16 Apr. 1602 ; A.B. 1605, A.M. 

1609, B.D. 1608 ; Minor Fellow 1608 
Matric, 9 July 1607; A.B. 1610, 

A.M. 1615 
A.B. 1610, A.M. 1614 

A.B. 1608 

A.B. 1605, Edw. A.M. 1609 



Matric. 12 Apr. 1606; A.B. 1609, 

A.M. 1613 
B.A. 1569, A.M. 1573, D.D. 1590; 

Master of Jes. 1590-1618 
Matric. 6 July 1610; A.B. 1613, 

A.M. 1617 



Matric. 12 Apr. 1606; A.M. 1613 



A.B. 1610, A.M. 1614 
Matric. 17 Dec. 1607 
Scholar 22 Apr. 1608 
Matric. 4 July 1605 ; A.B. 1609 

Scholar, 1582 

Matric. 17 Dec. 1607; A.B. 1611, 

A.M. 1615 
porter 

Mr Thompson's man 
tobacconist 
apothecary 



(A.B. 1605, A.M. 1609; Min. Follow, 
t 1608 

A.B. 1600, A.M. 1604, B.D. 1612 
A.M. 

A.B. 1584, A.M. 1588; "Senior of 
S. John's" 

barber 

Matric. July 1607 ; A.B. 1610 ; stage- 
keeper 

A.B. 1578, A.M. 1582, B.D. 1587, 
D.D. 1595 

A.B. 1588, A.M. 1592, B.D. 1599, 
D.D. 1608 



APPENDIX. 



41 



Hilton, Sam. 

Horsmander, Dan. 

Hoult, 

Hutton, Huttonn, Art. 

Jackson, Nich. 

Johnson, ? Art. 

Kennston, Kynaston, Fra. 

Kemp, Kempe, Tim. 

King, Kinge, Joh. 

Lawson, Lawsone, Wm, 

Layfeild, Layfield, Tho. 

Linge, 1 Tho. 
Marchand, Marchant, 

Marchante, Paul 

Mason, Rob. 

Maurrice, ? Joh. 

Metcalfe, Rob. 

Muncaster, Joh. 

My ton, ? Rob. 

Novell, Nevill, ? Geo. 

Nevile, Tho. 



Jeremiah Joh. 

Joh. 

Joh. 

Trin. 

Trim 



Nevill (the 2nd), 

Newton, 

Osborne, Osburne, 
Otbey, Otbye, 

Oxly, Oxlye, Oxely, 

Oxley, Oxeleye, 
Paget, Pagett, 
Palmer, 

Parry, 

Pickering, 

Pilgrim, Pylgrime, 

Pratt, 

Purkis, 

Randell, 

Ratclyffe, 

Richardson, 

Roane, Rone, 
Rowles, 



?Ed. 

Fogg 



?Ja 

Tristram 



Rob 

Nath 

Sir ?Edw. 



Jo. 



Walt. .. 
? Edm. 



?Rob. 
Jere. 

Joh. 



Humphrey 
Gabriel .... 



Chr. I Matric. 7 July 1608 

Joh. I A.B. 1603, A.M. 1607, B.D. 1614, 

D.D. 1627 
A.B. 1599, A.M. 1603, B.D. 1610 
A.B. 1607, A.M. 1611 
tollgatherer's son 
?A.B. 1576, A.M. 1580, B.D. 1587; 

President of St John's 
A.B. 1605, A.M. 1609; Scholar 12 Apr. 

1605; Minor Fellow, 1609 
A.B. 1601, AM. 1605 ; ? Scholar 

5 May 1598 
porter at Trinity 
barber 

A.B. 1606, A.M. 1610 
A.B. 1608 

Matric. 12 Apr. 1606 

A.B. 1609, A.M. 1613, LL.D. 1628 

A.B. 1611 

A.B. 1596, A.M. 1602 

brewer in S. Botolph's parish. See 
Acta Curiae, 1610 

Matric. 18 Dec. 1609; stagekeeper 

Matric. Feb. 1565; A.B. 1569, A.M. 
1572, D.D. 1589 ; Master of Trinity 
College, 1593-1615; Dean of Can- 
terbury 1597-1615 

Matric. 7 July 1608; Scholar 22 Apr. 
1608 

A.B., M.A. 1594, B.D. 1601, D.D. 
1606; Provost 1610-1612 

Matric. July 1 607 

Matric. 10 Apr. 1609; A.B. 1612, 
A.M. 1616 



Joh. 
Trin. 

Jes. 
*Joh. 

Joh. 



Trin. 
Pem b 



Trin. 

Kings 

Joh. 
Joh. 



Joh. 
Cai. 
Trin. 



Cla. A.B. 1609, A.M. 1613 
Scholar, 1610; A.B. 1610-1611 ; Minor 
Fellow, 1614; Major Fellow, 1617 



Joh. A.B. 1612 
Joh. A.M. 1613 

A.B. 1609 
Trin. A.B. 1570, A.M. 1574, B.D. 1581, 

D.D. 1588 
Jla. A.B.1581;Emm A.M.1585,B.D.1592, 
D.D. 1597; Master of Pet. 1609- 
1615 ; Master of Trin. 1615-1625 
Trin. I A.B. 1600, A.M. 1604, B.D. 1611 ; 

stagekeeper 
Joh. I Matric. 13 Dec. 1606 



42 



APPENDIX. 



Rutisse, Edw 

Scarlett, ? Edw 

Scholes, ?Aegid 

Searl, Serle, Edw 

Senhouse, Eic 

Shittleworth, Shutleworth, Leon 

Sherrocke, Shorrock, Hen 

Simonds, Symonds, John 

Simonds, Symonds, John 

Sishton, Sir 

Slegg, Slegge Rob 

Smart, 

Smyth, Wm 

Sotheby, ? Joh 

Stanhope, Stanopp, Stannopp, Geo. . . 

Synowes, see Senhouse 

Thompson, Tompson, Paul 

Thompson, Joh 

Tillett, 

Trott, Ric 

Twelves, Twelles, Wm 

Tyndale, Humphrey . . 

Turret, ?Theo 

Vaughan, ? Joh 

Vicars, Vickears, Fra 

Vice-Chancellor, see Newton 

Warde, Jarmin,Jermin 

Ward, Sam 

Ward, Warde, ?Wm 

Warr, ?Wm 

Waterhowse, Jere 

Webster 

Whaly, Wheley, Wm 

Whaley,Whaleye,Wheley, Tho. ... 

Whitgrave, Walt 

Wilbey, Matth 

Wilkin, 

Wilkinson, Tho 

Williams, Willyams, John 

Winge, 

Winter, P 

Winscall, John 

Wood, Isaake 

Woodrofe, 



Trim 
Chr. 
Trim 



Job. 
Joh. 
Joh. 

Joh. 



Joh. 
Joh. 
Trin. 



Trin. 
Joh. 

Trin. 
Trin. 
Pemb. 

Joh. 
Joh. 

Trin. 



Chr. 

Trin. 
Trin. 

Trin. 

Joh. 

Trin. 
Trin. 



Trin. 
Joh. 



Trin. 
Chr. 



A.B. 1603; Magd. A.M. 1607, B.D.1616 

A.B. 1611, A.M. 1615 

A.B. 1608, A.M. 1612 ; Scholar 12 Apr. 

1605; Minor Fellow, 1610; Major 

Fellow 1612 
B.D. 1606, D.D. 1622 
Matric. 17 Dec. 1610 
A.B. 1593 

servant to the butler of King's Coll. 
A.M. 1613, B.D. 1620 
A.B. 
constable of the Round Parish 1611. 

Licensed Victualler Round Parish 

1608-1611. Buried 13 Apr. 1622 
porter at Trinity 



A.B. 1609 
Scholar 1602; 
stagekeeper 



Minor Fellow 1606 



A.B. 1582, A.M. 1586, B.D. 1593 

A.B. 1610; Cla. A.M. 1614 

innkeeper 

A.B. 1608, A.M. 1612 

A.B. 1566, A.M. 1570, B.D. 1577, 
D.D. 1582; Pt of Queens' 1579-1614 
Matric. 17 Dec. 1607, A.B. 1611 
Matric. 5 July 1604, A.B. 1608, A.M. 
1612 



A.B. 1592, A.M. 1596, B.D. 1603, 
D.D. 1610; Master of Sid. Suss. 1610 

Matric. 16 Apr. 1609 

Matric. 12 Apr. 1606; A.B. 1613, 
D.D. 1632 

A.B. 1593, A.M. 1597, B.D. 1605 

drawer at Tillett's 

Matric. 13 Dec. 1606 

churchwarden of Trin. Parish 

A.B. 1596, A.M. 1600, B.D. 1608 

Matric. 7 July 1608; A.B. 1611, 
A.M. 1615 

carter 

A.B. 1605, A.M. 1609 

A.B. 1601, A.M. 1605, B.D. 1613, 
D.D. 1617 

pavior 

Adm. Scholar 12 Apr. 1605 

servant to Mr Senhouse 

A.B. 1611, A.M. 1615 



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